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UT2003 LiveCD

Posted by michael on from the plug-and-play dept.

ztc writes "Gentoo has added a Unreal Tournament 2003 demo to a version of their Linux-based LiveCD. It has up-to-date nvidia graphics drivers, sound drivers, network drivers, etc. on the CD ready-to-play. LiveCDs have always been a great way to sway potential Linux-converts, but this should really impress them! You can download the iso here." A sneaky way to promote Gentoo. I like it.

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  1. Re:WOW! by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Heh that was funny. GJ. :)

    I remember a couple of years ago, my former office mate was really getting into Linux. He got Samba working and was reaaaally happy about that. Today I understand why Samba's cool, but back then his demo didn't impress me.

    Coworker: "Go to my Linux box under Network Neighborhood."

    Me: "Ok"

    Coworker: "See that directory there?"

    Me: "You mean the folder called 'Public'?"

    Coworker: "yeah!!!"

    Me: "okay.. I'm in there."

    Coworker: "YES!! I got Samba working!! Isn't that great?"

    Me: "Umm.. you spent all of yesterday and today on that?"

    Coworker: "Yeah! It was hard!" (if memory serves, he had a bit of trouble getting it to work on our network, we had some strange issues with it before he started messing with Samba. This was a startup company so the computers were basically band-aided together with whatever MS thought we needed...)

    Me: "You realize that a sane person could recreate that trick on Windows by right clicking here, then clicking this checkbox here, then hitting apply, right?" (I was a bit of a smeghead then, still am today.)

    After that day, a new policy was created that banned the use of the F-word above a certain number of decibals.

    Piece of advice to Linux Zealots out there: Don't brag about features of Linux designed to keep up with Windows. To the uninformed, it makes Linux sound like an un-evolved OS.

  2. PC "Consoles"? by Vireo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What I find interesting is the possibility to offer games that come with their own OS. Instead of distributing a game which comes for Windows, Linux, or MacOS, why not put an optimized OS on the CD or DVD so that anyone can boot it and play the game. The game could fetch configs and saved games, if available, on a user-specified location on disk, or better, online. It would work much as a console; of course, having to boot on the CD is a drawback, but console users don't seem to mind.