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Turn Your New Opteron Into A One-Game Console

Posted by timothy on from the as-if-you-have-an-opteron dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new 64-bit Linux CD can instantly turn an AMD Opteron-equipped PC into the ultimate gaming console, according to Super Computer Inc. (SCI). The company has created a distribution of the popular America's Army multi-player strategy game on a bootable Linux CD, that it says was developed in partnership with AMD, nVidia, and the US Army."

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  1. Turn your $2000 PC into a $150 Toy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where do I sign up?

    Maybe they can release instructions on how to dissemble my car and build a go cart out of the parts.

  2. How far we've come... by 3Suns · · Score: 5, Funny

    How far we've come since the days of Apple IIe and Commodore64 and Kaypro. With all this new technology, it's interesting to see the return of the "Application Diskette".

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    -3Suns

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  3. You're smoking crack and it's not even good crack. by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I predict 12 months before bootable Linux CDs become a completely standard model for games and application distribution

    I predict the entire computer gaming and applications industry will not follow your lead. Just a hunch, but it seems slightly beyond farfetched to think that anyone who sells software for money would consider a bootable Linux CD the ideal method of application distribution. It's especially farfetched to think they'd drop everything they're doing and begin selling their products this way.

    - A.P.

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    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"