Is the Key to Linux a Games-Based Distro?

Posted by simoniker on Monday March 15, 2004 @07:51AM from the all-killer-no-filler dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If in the FOSS community we could only get our act together and launch a game-based distro, we will be home and dry. That, at least, is the view of one British games enthusiast, Ian Bonham, who says in the short Linux World article: 'I would be happy to help a group of volunteers create a distro based on games, because I believe that's where the next generation is - NOT in giving away copies of Linux or OOo. That's a short-term ideal. The PS2 and the X-Box(sic) run Linux, so let's create a distro that turns home PC into a console with development potential. Expand that distro to the consoles. And lets get some 'killer' games on that disk.'"

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Learning C++ from an Early Age by SuperChuck69 · 2004-03-15 08:34 · Score: 1, Flamebait

AMOS and Blitz basic on the Amiga formed a huge range of great games, but getting people learning C++ from an early age would lead to great things for the future, I'm sure.
Like alcoholism?

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Re:Games Based Distro by proj_2501 · 2004-03-15 08:46 · Score: 2, Flamebait

using jack and alsa together IS a pragmatic issue. ALSA deals with supporting hardware, and jack shuffles data from apps to ALSA. simple as that.

if you want audio support that works consistently, why bother with linux?