The Super Gamer VectorLinux-based distribution comes as a live DVD loaded with tons of native Linux games. It includes demos of some proprietary games, and native Windows games can be played with Wine or one its derivatives (Cedega or Crossover). The Super Gamer features optimizations for gaming computer environments as well as performance improvements for running games from the Live DVD, which can be downloaded through Bittorrent or ordered to be received as an actual DVD.
The Super Gamer VL is a Live DVD based on the core of VectorLinux - a lighterweight and fast Linux OS for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems. The main focus of the DVD is fun specially gaming. The Author - Darin started this project for his own use, Soon others got a copy and liked it very much.
The Games Include:
- 3D Games: America's Army, Cube, DOOM 3, Enemy Territory, Legends, Nexuiz, Privateer, Quake 4, Soldier of Fortune, UFO: Alien Invasion, UT2004, Wesnoth
- Arcade: BzFlag, Chromium, 3D Pinball, Frozen Bubble, Neverball, Neverput, Penguin Racer, Supertux, Tuxkart
- Cards: Pysol
- Trategy: Foobillards
Despite Supergamer being a gaming distro, it comes with enough applications to be used as a primary operating system. Office apps include Adie, Orage, FOX Calculator, Gnumeric, J-Pilot, X Calculator, and XPDF. For network tasks we find Chestnut Dialer, D4X, Firefox, GFTP, Grsysnc, Samba Network, Wifi-Radar, and XChat. In multimedia we have Graveman, mhWaveEdit, MPlayer, RipperX, x264 ecoder, Xine, and XMMS. For graphics we see GQView, gtkam, MtPaint, and Shutterbug. Under the bonnet we have Linux 2.6.18.5, Xorg 6.9.0, and GCC 3.4.6. In addition, Supergamer includes several Windows wireless Ethernet drivers.
Supergamer's System menu provides several handy utilities and tools, including Bulk Rename, GKrellm, Htop, Terminal, Thunar File Manager, vcpufreq, vl-hot-config, vwifi-connect, Xfce 4 Taskmanager, and Xfe (file explorer). In that same menu are the Gslapt Package Manager with VectorLinux repositories activated and the Vector Live hard drive installer. To use the installer, make sure you have at least an 8GB partition ready.
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