The project live.linuX-gamers.net was founded with the idea to present Linux games at the Linuxtag exhibition in a novel way. A collection of games should be shown to directly run from DVD without the user in need to know about Linux or care about his system. The dvd should run on every x86 PC out there.
The livedvd based on archELinux, an embedded distribution arisen of ArchLinux. The archELinux project is still undocumentated yet, but the documentation is currently done in course of a diploma thesis by one of the team members.
The linuX-gamers Live DVD is a bootable medium with a collection of popular 3D games. It contains both the NVIDIA and ATI proprietary Linux drivers and includes the following games: BzFLag, Enemy Territory, Glest, Nexuiz, Sauerbraten, Torcs, Tremulous, True Combat: Elite, Warsow and World of Padman. Although the live DVD is based on Arch Linux, it does not offer any desktop Linux functionality except gaming.
Your PC requirements:
- intel x86 architecture
- 512 MB ram
- videocard with 3d acceleration
- The games on the DVD have different hardware requirements, have a look on their project page. But all of them are running fine on a testsystem with this hardware configuration: AMD 1800+, 512MB ram, ATI Radeon 8500 (comparable to nvidia gf3)
Features
- The current version of the dvd is a release candiate, version 0.9. Features are:
- 13 top free native linux games! 9 of them with multiplayer mode!
- high performance video card drivers (not preinstalled, but very easy to install):
- properitery nvidia drivers for nvidia tnt - geforce8xxx included.
- properitary ati driver (radeon 8500 - radeon x1900 supported).
- open source drivers with 3d acceleration for many other video cards
- harddisk is not touched!
- savegames and configuratoins can be stored on an usbstick and restored
- nothing needs to be configured, everything is done automatically
Changelog
v0.9.2:
- Fixed bug with fglrx driver
- Speed up of reading data from dvd
- Added game ufo:ai
v0.9.1:
- Added games: Blobby2, Foobillard, gl-117, Neverball, Wesnoth, Warzone2100
- Removed RTCW:ET and TC:E due to licensing issues
- Nvidia driver can be easily installed when the video card was not detected correctly
- Speedup of reading data from DVD
REVIEW:
Raiden:
Open Source Gaming Review: Linux Gamers Live DVD 0.9.2 By Steve Lake - 07.02.2007 "Being an avid gamer who loves Linux, I felt that it would be a good idea to go try out the new Linux-Gamers.net live dvd. This is a live dvd built on Arch Linux and designed with one purpose in mind. Gaming. No desktop apps, no office suites, no web browsers. Nope, nothing but gaming."
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