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QWCD Quake Bootable Linux CD Released

Posted by simoniker on from the nice-and-fraggy dept.

Ozh writes "QuakeWorld players will want to try this interesting light Penguin-powered 'live distro' : QWCD provides a ready-to-frag nothing-to-install QuakeWorld installation, playable from the bootable CD. It includes popular Quake clients FuhQuake and MWQCL, comes with an up-to-date Kernel, and every piece of software a player should need (ATI and nVidia drivers, internet connexion and browser, IRC client...). Has Quaking at the office ever been easier?"

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  1. Only 46MB by SpaFF · · Score: 5, Informative

    The ISO is only 46MB, which means you could put this thing on a business-card CD and tote it around in your wallet. How cool is that!

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    1. Re:Only 46MB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I guess it would beat actually talking to people.

  2. Game OS? by Fiz+Ocelot · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This just gave me an idea. What if game devs were to do this, like a customized operating system for their game? It could be just like this, stripped down bare bones, just enough to run the game very well.

    It sounds cool from a pure performance stand point, but of course you'd be missing a lot too. None of your custom configs and other programs etc. But just performance wise, it could be awsome.? Well overall it would be inconvenient, yet another crazy idea.