The State of Linux Gaming · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday February 4, 2005 @02:15AM from the games-people-play dept.

Srikant_Chaudhry writes "CTZ has an interesting article that talks about hardware and software problems, along with others, that is limiting Linux gaming as a whole. Here's a quote from their concluding paragraph: "As of this moment, gaming on Linux is still a little like the Wild West. It's somewhat chaotic, random and empty, but it can be very exciting too. As time progresses and the market matures, we will see a plethora of games on Linux. Right now, many distributions are concentrating on other materials, like making their distributions easy to use, and making sure they work well with all the different hardware. Once the Linux desktop has stabilized to a certain extent, you can expect to see developers turn their energies to better gaming support under Linux. That's when the Linux gaming market will really take off."

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Open Graphics Project by Theovon · 2005-02-04 03:55 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Part of the problem with gaming on Linux is the derth of open source graphics drivers. Furthermore, closed-source drivers for Linux tend to be substandard compared to their Windows counterparts. As such, I'd like to point to the Open Graphics Project.