Fedora 8 Games Spin (Live DVD) for Gamers

Fedora Games
Linux was never considered to be a good platform for gaming, but folks from Fedora are trying to change this by releasing a customized version of Fedora 8 called Fedora Games. It comes with loads and loads of free games ranging from simple card game to complex 3d games.

Fedora Games comes in a live DVD and the whole idea is to demonstrate the gaming potential of Fedora without altering user’s existing configuration. Fedora Games can be installed in your hard disk or portable USB flash drive.

In order to run Fedora Games, you need to download the disc image and burn it on a DVD. You can then boot from the DVD and start playing.

My 2 cents: Linux is good at its own, but unfortunately gaming isn’t one of them. They havae a huge list of small games for Linux, but nobody is interested in producing brilliant games like Bioshock or Manhunt 2 for the open source community. I’m not a hardcore gamer, but I occasionally play CounterStrike and Team Fortress 2 on Ubuntu 7.10 with a little help from WineX. The problem is that playing Windows games on Linux isn’t as efficient as it is on Windows.

Of course, there are plenty of Linux exclusive games like Battle for Wesnoth and Tremulous. Have you tried them?

[Via: DownloadSquad]

This post was published by on November 12, 2007

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  • http://marcvz.net/blog Marc

    Putting a collection of small games on a live distro is not going to impress anyone. I think Cedega is an emulator that is a commerical fork of Wine.

    I just posted about games on Linux on my blog. I said:

    “The idea of a free and open OS is nice and fine, but game developers don’t release games for it and Linux supporters claim it’s because of people like me who continue to play Windows games and not ask developers to release Linux versions. The only way game developers would make games Linux compatible is if thousands of people asked them to. And that will happens only if millions of people start using Linux. This means that Linux must be able to run all games to attract gamers to move. It’s a vicious cycle. Gamers are not going to switch to Linux, ever. So stop blaming us poor gamers. The only way to break this cycle is if so many people start using Linux that game developers are forced to release Linux compatible games simply because of the large marketshare.”

    What do you think?