Linux Unreal Tournament Available

James wrote in to tell us that Unreal Tournament for Linux is now available. Of course you need a 3d card to make it all work, but still, I hear a great sucking sound that is the productivity of all workers. Download here.

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'link coming soon'

[Longing]

Great... we're slashdotting servers before they're even ready for us.

:P

Re:Does anybody else see this trend as unfortunate

[dead_penguin]

Sorry, but I fail to see your point. While it's true that more and more things (ranging from games to desktops to productivity apps) become available for linux on a daily basis, this shouldn't really affect how bloated you perceive the OS.

If you want a lean, mean server, don't install the goodies. Skip KDE, skip Gnome. Hell, even skip all of X unless you absolutely need the graphical config tools. If you want to play, however, put it all on your box.
You don't even need separate, specialized distributions to do this. Using RedHat (just as an example), and a bit of know-how as to which packages do what, it should be trivial to set your box up as a web/ftp server with not much else, or as a Gnome desktop workstation, or both. The only way bloat really comes into the picture here is that eventually we're going to need 2, 3, or more install CDs to hold all the different packages that are available.
Similarly, the Linux kernel can be "bloated" to your liking or made quite minimalistic, depending on how you compile it (or what modules you load).

Personally, I like this type of "Linux bloat" where you can pick and choose what you want (and don't) much better than the typical MS bloat where gui and thousands of other "options" are there, regardless of whether you want them.

Choice is good!