Expert Opinions On Linux Gaming's Future

jg21 writes "Following on from yesterday's Slashdot coverage of the idea to launch a games-based Linux distro, LinuxWorld Magazine has held a Gaming Round Table involving Chris DiBona, Ryan Gordon, Timothee Besset, Gavriel State, and Joe Valenzuela about where Linux currently stands and how it will one day become a premier gaming platform. 'It became perfectly clear to me that most of the technological issues are already solved, and that the others won't take too long to fix once the game publishers really get into the mix,' reports Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Gaming Industry Editor for LinuxWorld, who coordinated the round table. Well worth reading."

Comments

Re:Yay!

[bitbiter]

But you still have to have an os that can be installed and work right. linux doesn't all the time...heck most of the time. Windows has problems and i am sure we will find more tomorrow..(hehehehehehe) but when you install a program....that program comes with everything it needs to run. linux doesn't work that way...you install a program and it needs another compontant and that componant needs another and another and another. Sometimes you find the right distro and it works fine for one thing you want just to findout that they broke somethingelse that you need and worked in the ver before. No i would say that linux is a very long way from being a gaming platform...a long ways.

You guys are kidding right?

[juuri]

Big developers are leaving PC development for consoles and now you wonder why they won't release in-house ports to a subset of a dying market?

Get a console.