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Games Knoppix

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Am I correct... by CrackedButter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    in thinking that Michael is not celebrating xmas? He seems to be doing his duty as a hardcore geek by staying here and posting us stories for us lonely buggers to read?

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  2. A Games CD for Linux on BitTorrent ... mmm.. by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What games on that CD ?. Is it just the ordinary TuxRacer ... Or have they included the demos for Quake3 and stuff like that ?. (It's already slashdotted).

    Thank god the the download won't get slashdotted - BitTorrent tracker looks great (quite enough seeds).

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  3. Confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    uni-kl is University of Kaiserlautern, the first on the list for distributing SuSE fixes - they are good

    I'm confused, this is knoppix or SuSE? What does being "first on the list for distributing SuSE fixes" mean towards making knoppix? Being a mirror doesn't give you any more credibility than being a Kazaa node.

  4. what about a commercial game like this by cinemabaroque · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would be practical for someone to write linux games and sell them so that the cd is a live cd and immediatly launched the game when it started, turning your computer into a sort of console system. This way, as the developer, you would have a custom OS to run/design your game in.

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  5. Re:GPL? by node+3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isnt it a GPL violation to ship the Linux kernel together with nvidia binary modules?

    Not at all. The GPL only applies to GPL'd code, and any binaries resulting from compiling that code. The non-free NVIDIA binary is not under the GPL, and does not modify either the Linux kernel source code, nor does it modify the resulting binary, so they are entirely seperate (from a license stand-point) and can co-exist on the same CD (or DVD, or tarball, or web site, what have you).