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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."
GNAA / Google confirms: Linux is dying.
By GNAA Staff
Here you have it: it's official; Google confirms: Desktop Linux is dying.
Now, you might be thinking this is just another cut & paste troll based on the typical *BSD is dying bullshit.
It isn't.
As you might have know, your favorite search engine, Google, has been running a little statistics service, called "Zeitgeist".
Since about a year ago, they started providing statistics of the operating systems used to access their search engine worldwide.
I will let the numbers speak for themselves:
Operating Systems Accessing Google in January 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in March 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in April 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in May 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in June 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in July 2002
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Operating Systems Accessing Google in November 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in December 2002
Operating Systems Accessing Google in January 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in February 2003
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Operating Systems Accessing Google in September 2003
Operating Systems Accessing Google in November 2003
If you've looked at even a few of these links, you don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Desktop Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Desktop Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux on Desktop because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux on Desktop. As many of us are already aware, Linux on Desktop continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
According to Google Zeitgeist, there are about 80% of Internet Explorer 6 users. The only platform supporting Internet Explorer 6 is, of course, Microsoft Windows. These statistics are consistent with the earlier presented graphs of the operating systems used to access Google, with the Windows family consistently taking the top 3 ranks. Out of remaining 20%, the split is even between MSIE 5.5, MSIE 5.0, both Windows-only browsers. N
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Lunix might be stable, but so is my DOS 6.22 box under my bed that doesn't do anything. And Games on Lunix? Get fucking real.
By a lonely prison wall I heard a Taco callin'
Michael they have taken you away
For you stole CowboyNeal's porn
And withered him with scorn
Now he sits and questions if he might be gay.
(Chorus) Low lie the profits of VA
Where once we watched dividends pay
Our careers were on the make, we had shares and stocks to take
Now Taco sits and questions if he might have failed.
By a lonely prison wall I heard a young man calling
Nothing matters, Taco, when you're free
Against the threat of anal rape
From Linux coders I escaped
Now you must take the pain with dignity.
By a lonely harbour wall he watched the penguin falling
As that crap OS fell down next to XP
For he'll live in hope and pray
For his masters in VA
It's so hard to see that open source has failed.
Is it just me or Linux is a complete joke as a gaming platform? We can't even get decent drivers for our video cards, how in hell can we play good games on that? Oh, you mean rogue is the top seller since 1975? I guess I was reading the wrong reports on game sales then!
No offense, but I haven't rebooted my XP system in months. I've changed more settings, upgraded more system files, and installed/removed more programs than the average user does in his/her lifetime. No reboots.
then why are you posting on slashdot, you windows luser?
Who in the hell is going to install a "games distro"? How about fixing the 10,000 existing distros first.
You dorks can have your Lintendo distro. I'll stick with an single OS that's function enough to run both games and database servers at the same time -- Windows.
First a bit of Linux history reiterated, just to set the scene... Linux has gained the widest adoption in the server arena, probably the largest segment being dedicated Internet/Firewall boxes. Running without a GUI or even headless (without attached monitor/etc), configured via Web interface, even using "lower end" hardware. These are perfect canidates for adding more server software to, in this case we'd add a simple way to install and configure game servers.
/. games section. Anyone super interested can email me.
The advantages are obvious, we can sidestep the entire issue of "does Linux support the latest games" since most modern games come with a Linux server component that is superior to running a server/client at the same time on your Windows box. (added server overhead usually only if you are serving the game of course)
Considering the wide variety of dedicated firewall distros out there (my own favorite) and how easy they are for even Linux newbies to setup, there isn't much of a leap to create such a distro. One of the main issues of course is getting the needed copyrighted content from the game CD to the Linux box, something that is both a manual and painful process in many cases.
I've discussed this project with a few friends who are familiar with Linux firewalls/game servers also, but unfortunately we haven't had time to do more than brainstorm on it. If we do end up putting together a basic distro like this you can be sure I'll submit it to
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In Soviet Russia, the games control linux!
Damn, they need to bring some of those russian distros over here.
Unreal is basically a Virtual Machine, thats why UT is on Linux, Windows and OS X. Yeah its a steaming pile of shit but its the only pile of shit really on Linux, I guess it goes with the terratory. Perfect match for Linux.
linux sucks.