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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."
Interesting a distrobution that actually has support for a ati video card, where 3d is already setup. Heck, its worth downloading just for that.
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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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Isnt it a GPL violation to ship the Linux kernel together with nvidia binary modules?
Including frozen bubble the most adictive game ever made.
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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December 25, @08:30AM "Every kid should have one for Christmas morning."
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
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What a beautiful present...
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Like it, like it. Speaking of cheap mother fucking dads, mine got me a watch off price drop TV. What makes it worse is that he bought me a watch last xmas as well. They are not even stylish, they are those you buy because the price is right and you think they look good, as whats happened in my case. I'm gonna fucking tell this year as well. I don't even where them anyway, shows how much he knows!
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or, I'm guessing, enemy-territory. since it's native in linux, and free.
Also, what more could you want for christmas than getting your university's website slashdotted?
Karma: Negative (Mostly affected by dorm trolling)
Anyone a mirror? (Which q#%$^%& says games on ./ at Christmas?)
Yeah, you heard me. This is a noble idea but who wants to play Ktris, Gtris, ChrisTris, etc?
Yeah, but it'll take 6 hours to start the game
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
Morphix (http://www.morphix.org/) has a game iso as well.
(Morphix is a modular live-cd distro based on Knoppix in the first place which comes in several flavours like light-gui (xfce4), heavy-gui(gnome/kde) and a game iso).
Not all of us are like that. I find this kid to be offending. I think one could sum up his attitude as scum. It's too bad...
ruby -le"32.times{|y|print' '*(31-y),(0..y).map{|x|~y&x>0?'
A bittorrent tracker is available at: http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/
Enjoy!
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.
Checking out the comments on the tracker, it seems this could be a German version. Can anyone confirm/deny? I've got a nice DL groove on - and only unused bandwidth is truly wasted - but I'm hoping my interest was not piqued for naught.
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...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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I am amazed. I can acctualy scroll down among the comments and not notice a godzillion posts pointing out that it's called X Window, not XWindows. What is slashdot coming too? Next thing you know you will be able to spall things wrung and nit get spalling nazis after yo.
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According to the site they are only producing a CD version, but I hope that at some point they will make a DVD compilation with all the games from all the CD releases, plus some more. That would be an impressive DVD.
Hopefully they will have room for fish-fillets on the DVD edition!
I'll probably be modded down for this...
'xsnow' on the wallpaper, too. Animated snow and reindeer.
For those who may be looking for other stuff then games, another knoppix contains a lot of these games, and a some very usefull tools. Its called Knoppix STD (Security Tool Distribution) http://www.knoppix-std.org/
If I was still a kid I'd love my parents to give me a Knoppix CD: it would show that not only did they know what it was (at least sort of), but they'd have known how to get it and burn it. That much computer literacy is the best gift one can give...
Morphix has had a "gamer" version for some time now. Get it from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/Morphix Combined-Gamer-0.4-1.iso?download
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But if it's just like the other Knoppixes, and it turned out to be German, all you'd have to do is "cheat" with lang=us, wouldn't you?
Nothing to do with SuSE, just pointing out that uni-kl have a track record of being trustworthy.
From here, the newest games on the CD are:
Castle-Combat
Globulation 2
Hatman
Kobodeluxe
Miniracer
Pingus
Rafkill
You need at least 256 MB RAM to use your accelerated video card. That should give you a taste of what's on the CD. Personally, I don't think it's worth it. It contains a lot of nostalgic arcade games written by fans of those games for other fans. Also, the GamesKnoppix distro organizer has himself said there are no violent games on this CD.
On an unrelated matter, Merry Christmas
Now here's the rest of the games on the CD:
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)
Nice! Daddy likes the rough stuff.
My wife bought me a watch for my birthday. Knowing full well she had done it, my mother-in-law has bought me a watch for Christmas.
I think chucking a Knoppix disk under the tree for someone is cool. SO LONG AS YOU'RE NOT A CHEAP BASTARD AND ACTUALLY ALREADY HAD SOMETHING ELSE FOR THEM.
It's a good stocking filler I think. Slap a disk under the tree, slap it on a computer, keep the young kids happy, and let's face it, Tux Racer is a laugh.
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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Is there anything like Games Knoppix for PowerPC?
I am no Linux guru, far from it.
When loading the 2.4.x kernel, my nVidia works just fine, but no sound. Despite being detected, my Audigy won't work.
If I load the 2.6.x kernel, sound work nice. but 3D acceleration won't load. Maybe someone can help?
I find it amazing that everything else can load properly on autoboot with no configuration at all, even windows with all its drivers can't do that.
By the way, if you give this to someone, be sure to be there the first time they go for Google.com, their reaction upon discovering its german version should quite funny.
I always thought that a 2 CD system would be perfect to 'Consolize' the PC and specifically linux. At the prices of CD drives today, it would be pretty inexpensive to have two CD\DVD drives in a system. You could then make the hard drive optional. The first drive would be the OS/Driver drive. The second drive would be the game drive. You would have something like Knoppix to initialize all of your hardware in drive 1, and if there is a disk in drive 2 it would automatically load like a console.
This would give all the benefits of the console. Specifically, put the disk in and it runs. No seeing the OS at all. It would also allow for simple upgrade when new hardware came out. Just replace the Disk 1, and all of the Disk 2's still work.
Heck, the Disk one could even be a USB/SD/Compact Flash drive. Then people would freak out about the second CD. They would just see the system as "upgradeable".
With this system, geeks could 'roll there own' game system. And, white box dealers could very easily put the effort in once to make their first "console", and just make copies for the hundred other systems they sell.
Have a system with 1GB RAM (or more). Boot with 'knoppix toram'. Eject the boot CD, you have your regular CD drive to play with (and a much more responsive system as well)
Yes. Try http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10230
If you can convince the nice man in the tech store to let you boot the CD, you could run a set of linux gaming tests on each of the PCs you're considering for purchase.
Damned if I can find any comparisons of mobile 3d performance in linux so this is pretty much my only option.
Pity they couldn't load it up with the Quake 3 and UT200x demos which would be more useful.
No, I did not read the f***ing article!
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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The only problem with that is that to maintain the 'Console' image, users can't be expected to swap disks just to get the game to load. You need to have a system that keeps the drivers in the system. Putting in the 'System' disk once and leaving it there would be acceptable, but having to put it in every time, then take it out and put in the game disk would be unacceptable to most.
That being said, the 'System' disk could be a USB key, or a SD card. If you like, that could invisibly copy the OS to ram, but the Idea is that a user could just put the game in the drive and go, completely ignoring the fact that this was a "PC".
The Xbox does have a few design flaws, I'd prefer a PS2 to be honest.
Does anyone know if this game distribution of Knopix supports AMD Athlon 64?
...else +1 informative for that post.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
..."semi-literate" down as "amazed". (-:
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That's more or less the reason to download Knoppix. xsnow, and the rest of the stuff around it... GIMP, Quake 3, etc. Now, seriously, if Knoppix indeed offers graphics card support and good compatibility with PC game, I'm in!
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I've already got one ;)
Every poor kid. Any kid with $20 to spare will be better off buying a decently written, imaginative, properly thought out game for their game boy.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
Wow, welcome to 2001. You do know they changed the controllers, right?
No, I didn't actually...every Xbox I've ever tried has had huge controllers.
Looking at those screens shots its like being back in the 1970ies *g*
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
see for example Linus own explanation on http://lwn.net/Articles/13066/ or
http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735
to make a binary modules, you have to use linux kernel include files. So by copyright law (on which GPL is based), there is a high probability [1] that any module IS derived work of the kernel
[1] well, it haven't been court-trialed yet AFAIK