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Gentoo Games
TheSurfer writes "Today, Gentoo announced the creation of Gentoo Games, 'a gaming technology company created to deliver innovative Linux-based game technologies to the public'. They also released a GameCD with the full version of America's Army. For more information, see the threads in the forums here and here."
There's just nothing as good as the BSD game collection :)
*goes for another round of mille bornes*
Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes and leprotards who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...
"Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
"Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."
"Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
"Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."
"I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
"Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo."
"Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo." .debs can be rebuilt with a handful of commands (AND Red Hat
supplies i686 kernel and glibc packages), my box MUST be faster. It's nothing
to do with the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running
BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE."
"I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and
"...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
"...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..."
"You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..." .rpms together on the command line, and that problems
hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing
SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't
designed for)."
"I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH
"All the other distros are soooo out of date."
"Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -O9 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."
"Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
"OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"
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It's not like their server has to work hard to send out that page...
Gentoo is great, but I don't particularly care to 'emerge ut2006' and wait 6 hours while it compiles. ;)
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Totally agree. I've had a problem with the lack of reality in games ever since that giant ape took my girlfriend captive and started rolling barrels at me.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Gentoo Games, Inc.</title>
</head>
<body>
<center>
<img border="0" src="gentoogames.png">
</center>
</body>
</html>
Which, of course, is:
Yrma Eht Nioj!
All that game needs is belly dancers to sing it ad nauseum.
How the hell does one port "aggresively"? Like this?
Programmer: COMPILE!!! COMPILE YOU WHORE!!! EVEN IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO, I WILL MAKE DUKE3D RUN ON LINUX, YOU GODDAMN PIECE OF INTEL SHIT!!! I'M GOING TO TEAR YOUR PROCESSOR OUT AND PISS ALL OVER YOUR CHIPSET IF YOU DON'T COMPILE SUCCESFULLY THIS TIME!!!
Hate me!
Ryan.
Gentoo what??
Gesundheit.
I don't think GCC has support for that yet. I've tried it several times with different software, no luck.
free reyes
Just create a mod for q3a that turns quake console into a shell terminal, make a boot CD with it, and I'll use nothing else. :P
Please, I *need* this mod!
We hope Nintendo is fair enough to respect the queue.
Yours sincerely,
The SCO Group
Signatures are for stupids.
imagine a 'flat' Gamecube logo ;)
A GameSquare? Ouch! Sorry, couldn't resist. Please mod down accordingly...
No sig
In my experience, passive agressive works best:
Programmer: Okay, you don't have to compile. It's not like anything you do will impact anyone anyway. You're just Linux, a geek-coder's OS, I understand... no no, I am not angry. Far from it. You are open source, you can do whatEVER you want... and if you don't want to let people play fun games on you, hey, who am I to judge? It's not like I can compile. I am sure that you feel not compiling games is what's in your best interest. [in baby talk] Besides, running X-windows on mommy's little poopsie-woopsie 'puter must have tired iddums out. Yes it did! Oh, you have decided to compile now? Okay... whatever you want, it's not my choice...
Mod that to funny? Don't bother. I really have had sessions like this while compiling my own code. I need to go lie down now...
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You have, eh? Parents must have raised you on a healthy diet of modelling glue.
I just know this Blackadder quote would come in handy some day
Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. You can't simply say, "Today I will be brilliant."
He was even providing basic support for total newbs.
Suhweet. All this Perl and Python stuff is killing me. We're finally going to catch up with Microsoft when we get our BASIC interpreter for Linux.
Gamers aren't going to go through the mind numbing process of installing gentoo when they can install windows by pressing enter twice
You mean I never needed to type in that activation code?!? All this time, all I had to do was hit Enter?
Their logo looks very like the Nintendo Gamecube logo.
Yeah, well, as long as they don't call it "firebird" they should be fine.
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