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Hikarunix: The Go Distro

Posted by michael on from the go-fish dept.

LGRiske writes "In this day and age of the Unreal Final Fantasy of Doom 3 it's nice to see a 4000 year old board game keep up the pace. There's now a whole Linux distribution dedicated to learning, playing and studying the oldest strategy game in the world, Go/Baduk/WeiQi. Named Hikarunix it is based on DamnSmallLinux, the Live Linux CD, and is small enough to fit on a 3" (80mm) miniCD. It is meant for Go players of all levels whether you've never even heard of the game or have been playing for decades."

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  1. Great Idea with Potential by RobRancho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is actually a great idea and could be the basis for further innovation/exploitation of Linux or alternative and free OSs for distributing products sans the Windows / Direct X / permissions / general configuration headaches. You wouldn't have to worry about what media player or APIs are present on a user's system, instead focusing on creating a robust, stable, and boot-able platform to showcase your wares. Anyone know of any current projects bent towards this goal? Once the work was done, it could be applied to a variety of software products.

  2. Why a complete distro? by MacGod · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Excuse my non-Linux-user question, but:

    What's the advantage of having an entire distro built around this game, rather than just having an application for the game and all its training stuff built into the app?

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