Games Knoppix

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Posted by michael on Saturday December 25, 2004 @01:30AM from the go-together-like-chocolate-and-peanut-butter dept.

Quiberon writes "A distribution of Knoppix loaded with games has a bootable CD with 700 MB of open-source games, 3d support for NVIDIA, ATI, and Intel Extreme, gamepad support for XWindows. uni-kl is University of Kaiserlautern, the first on the list for distributing SuSE fixes - they are good. Every kid should have one for Christmas morning."

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One of the headlines you won't see in 2005 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-25 01:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Linux best suited platform for PC games!
1. Re:One of the headlines you won't see in 2005 by shwouchk · 2004-12-25 02:00 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  I, for one, welcome our PC gaming overlords!
Great... by jawtheshark · 2004-12-25 01:55 · Score: 4, Funny

Now that's one fine Chistmas present we are giving to the admin of that server... A slashdotting of the finest.
What a beautiful present...

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Re:Nah by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-25 02:05 · Score: 5, Funny

Speaking of cheap mother fucking dads,
Well, is there anyone else you suggest that a dad f**k's?
Great, 48 versions of Tetris by TheHornedOne · 2004-12-25 02:12 · Score: 1, Funny

Yeah, you heard me. This is a noble idea but who wants to play Ktris, Gtris, ChrisTris, etc?
1. Re:Great, 48 versions of Tetris by AndroidCat · 2004-12-25 03:35 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You've obviously never played DoomTetris, the FPS version. It's damned hard to catch those blocks while holding the flashlight, and that creepy music...
  
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Re:Pity the performance sucks by PatrickThomson · 2004-12-25 02:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, but it'll take 6 hours to start the game

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My Linux version of Quake III Arena... by stankulp · 2004-12-25 02:22 · Score: 2, Funny

...should finally live again when I install Knoppix to the hard drive.

I only got the NVidia drivers installed right one time, and I could never do it right again.

It's actually pretty cool to have the acclerated video drivers install this easily.

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1. Re:My Linux version of Quake III Arena... by gentoo_user · 2004-12-25 03:08 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Gentoo makes this easy as, "emerge nvidia-kernel" and all you have to do is spend a full weekend configuring and compiling your linux system first.
  
  What's not to like?
  
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Re:Nah by geeveees · 2004-12-25 02:45 · Score: 2, Funny

Teach me more, oh wise one!

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Re:Mirror? by kerbe6 · 2004-12-25 03:09 · Score: 1, Funny

Bam!
Re:Am I correct... by Quixote · 2004-12-25 03:41 · Score: 3, Funny

It's called automation, dude. I think the stories are just queued up, and posted at about 1 hour intervals during the day, and less frequently in the night. The times are adjusted a little, randomly, to apply a veneer of human touch.
Name rung a bell by Klowner · 2004-12-25 04:20 · Score: 3, Funny

So I googled Kaiserslautern, and sure enough, it's the sister city of my crappy home town.

Apparently I live in the ugly, less popular, dumber sister city.

(I'm sure everyone found that tidbit of knowledge absolutely wonderful)
Re:A Games CD for Linux on BitTorrent ... mmm.. by rtaylor · 2004-12-25 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny

If I meet the idiot responsible for this lameness filter I'm going to kick his ass.

You don't get it, the lameness filter only allows lame posts to get through. Your post was perfectly reasonable until the lameness filter forced you to make the post lame. See how it works now?

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Count Me Out Again by Master+of+Transhuman · 2004-12-25 10:04 · Score: 3, Funny

700MB of games!

That would be even a greater time-waster than my obsession with downloading pictures and videos of the Corrs and Angelina Jolie...

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Re:How about which games are on the CD? by Rico_Suave · 2004-12-25 17:46 · Score: 2, Funny

OK, now who is going to make a companion list of what games all these are clones of?
Re:Yay! Ati is supported by Goldberg's+Pants · 2004-12-26 09:22 · Score: 1, Funny

So his redundant comment gets modded up to +5, and I get modded down to -1. That's hilarious:) I managed to get a first post modded all the way up. HAHA!