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Live CD for PC Games?

Posted by Cliff on from the why-not? dept.

Onion asks: "Can anyone inform me why games developers don't put out games on a 'Knoppix' style live CD? This would negate coding the games for different PC platforms. Provided the hardware detection routines were up to scratch, the game could be coded using GNU/Linux for development and would run on any PC machine, regardless of OS. Only major drawback I can see would be the need to 'reboot' each time to play. Any thoughts or views on 'why not' ?"

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  1. Re:Many reasons. by Wolfrider · · Score: 0, Redundant

    --I would bet the game only requires that much RAM because:

    o It's designed to run only under Windows XP
    o XP has **horrendous** MINIMUM memory requirements.

    --This is one reason why lots of people are investigating Linux - because it gives them a way out of the Wintel upgrade cycle.

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    == WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??