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Gentoo Games

Posted by michael on from the compile-your-own dept.

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. Give credit where it is due: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its nice that Gentoo includes America's Army, but the story should mention that Ryan Gordon(icculus.org) is the one that did the port.

  2. Re:Cash by xchino · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gentoo has several high paying sponsors such as IBM. They also sell gentoo branded merchandise on their web page. Personally, I'd like to see the offer some enterprise support, but it's really just not that kind of distro (yet).

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  3. Re:America's Army by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    AA is one of the more realistic war simulations I've seen. If you get hit *once* you die, it does not get more real than that. I think the game teaches you how important teamplay and keeping your head down is. It's the best FPS out there IMHO.

  4. BitTorrent ISO Download by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    you can download the ISO using this bittorrent link: http://gentoo.twobit.net/misc/aa-20030513.iso.torr ent

    1. Re:BitTorrent ISO Download by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      excuse me, http://gentoo.twobit.net/misc/aa-20030513.iso.torr ent. make sure you tell lots of ppl kk?

    2. Re:BitTorrent ISO Download by zojas · · Score: 2, Informative
      just use the bittorrent client to download the file, and walk away. as long as you leave the client running, people will be able to download from you. the bittorrent program handles the downloading and the uploading for you.

      the client should report your download rate and your upload rate. eventually, you will get the whole file and your download rate will drop to 0. but your upload rate will continue to fluctuate as long as people are trying to download it.

  5. Re:Possible legal problems? by Davak · · Score: 4, Informative
    Wanna A vs B?

    Gamecube or Gamecube

    vs

    Gentoogames

    Davak

  6. Re:LiveCDs? by aonaran · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, take a look at the website, you can download it now. www.gentoo.org

  7. Re:Possible legal problems? by Schnapple · · Score: 2, Informative

    perhaps it would help things if the square G logo wasn't purple.

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  8. Re:What it basically means! by mahdi13 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really, Debian and Gentoo are quite different. They both have a similar mechanism for downloading and installing software, but there is a huge difference.

    Debian uses .deb files which are pre-built packages very similar to RPMs. Gentoo uses .emerge which is the source code, nothing pre-built.
    When you "apt-get install package" in Debian it just downloads and installs the package. In Gentoo when you "emerge package" it gets the source, compiles and then installs. This takes a considerable more amount of time, but the package in optimized for your system, not a general build for everything (like Debian packages)

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  9. America's Army in the WSJ by Malefious · · Score: 2, Informative

    Good story on America's Army in the Wall Street Journal today.

    Check it out

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  10. Re:gentoo? by mhesseltine · · Score: 1, Informative

    Google for Gentoo Penguin

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  11. Re:The description is very vague by Gojira+Shipi-Taro · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're doing pretty much what you're asking for. I believe the first one they did was an Unreal Tournament CD that booted off CD and ran. Here (http://gentoogames.supercomputerinc.com) they're offering America's Army on a cd, no OS install required.

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  12. Re:Excellent! by xchino · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually there is a visual basic clone called Gambas for Linux. Of course no respectable developer would be caught programming in any form of BASIC :P

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  13. Re:Cash by klieber · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gentoo has several high paying sponsors such as IBM.

    uhhh...no we don't and no they aren't.

    --kurt

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