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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."

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  1. Games on Linux by flokemon · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's just nothing as good as the BSD game collection :)
    *goes for another round of mille bornes*

    1. Re:Games on Linux by hazyshadeofwinter · · Score: 3, Funny

      > It's the American Way. (The American Way apparently consists of lots of violence along with minimal sex.;)

      And which country's way involves minimum violence and maximum sex? I may have travel plans...

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  2. Re:America's Army by fobbman · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Mirror in case of slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    <!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>

  4. Re:The first /.-proof website? by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, like a true linux website, the image is stored in multiple pieces in a MySQL database, and is dynamically created by a 400 line PHP script every time you hit it.

    Because for some reason linux folks can't bring themselves to using static content.

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  5. But you miss the point... by nastro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which, of course, is:

    Yrma Eht Nioj!

    All that game needs is belly dancers to sing it ad nauseum.

    1. Re:But you miss the point... by His+Nastiness · · Score: 5, Funny

      Strangely, after reading this post, I REALLY want to join the AMRY! Hmmmmm....what the hell is the amry?

  6. Re:The description is very vague by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 5, Funny
    Are they planning to aggressively port popular games to Linux?

    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!!!

  7. Re:gentoo? by gpinzone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gentoo what??

    Gesundheit.

  8. Re:The description is very vague by ecc0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think GCC has support for that yet. I've tried it several times with different software, no luck.

  9. completeness by rodolfo.borges · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  10. Re:Possible legal problems? by supergiovane · · Score: 4, Funny

    We hope Nintendo is fair enough to respect the queue.
    Yours sincerely,
    The SCO Group

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  11. Re:But Gentoo? by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just 6 hours to reach into the future and compile UT2006? Hell, where do I sign up!

    Perhaps I can download other classics from the distant future, like Doom 4, Red Alert 7 and Duke Nukem Forever...

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  12. Re:Possible legal problems? by secolactico · · Score: 4, Funny

    imagine a 'flat' Gamecube logo ;)

    A GameSquare? Ouch! Sorry, couldn't resist. Please mod down accordingly...

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  13. Re:But Gentoo? by Binestar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doom 4? No problem, our "Way-Forward Machine" will handle that.

    Red Alert 7? Childs Play, the "Way-Forward Machine" has that too.

    Duke Nukem Forever? Sorry, we're still waiting ourselves...

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  14. Re:Excellent! by ryanvm · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  15. Re:Possible legal problems? by CleverNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    Their logo looks very like the Nintendo Gamecube logo.

    Yeah, well, as long as they don't call it "firebird" they should be fine.