Most linux distributions install fine on most netbooks and nettops. However, their default video player may not be optimized for the Nvidia ION chipsets. For HD video playback, without tweaking the parameters of the video player application, the end result may be lacklustre and the playback may even be not in sync or skipping frames.
1) is sick of dual booting just to play games using Windows?
2) Prefers not to corrupt hardened linux workstation with linux games?
3) Complains of not having enough games on linux?
Supergamer is a permanent fix if you answered YES to any of the question!
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SuperGamer is a games oriented Live CD/DVD Linux OS. It has all the normal Linux desktop applications such as the Firefox Browser, OpenOffice.org, etc., but also has a great many native to Linux games added, as well as some demos of proprietary games.
Here is the list of games it comes pre-installed with :
Quake Wars
Doom 3
Prey
Unreal Tournament
Quake 4
Savage 2
Postal 2
Enemy Territory
Penumbra Black Plague
Sauerbraten
Urban Terror
Soldier Of Fortune
Torcs
Tremulous
AlienArena
True Combat
America’s Army
Nexus
OpenArena
PlaneShift
Drop Team
Frets On Fire
Chromium B.S.U.
Mad Bomber
X-Moto
BZ Flag
Mega Mario
Glaxium
GL-117
NeverBall
NeverPutt
Super Tux
PPRacer
The computing juice required for creating an epic animated hybrid movie, such as the movie Avatar is exceptional.
In fact, the data centre that was in charge of rendering the visual effects of Avatar, uses up to 4000 blade servers and is positioned at 197 of the top 500 supercomputers in the world we live in today!
The operating system used for such a huge array of blades…
Independent game publisher, Bit Blot, has released their public beta of the linux port of Aquaria.
Originally released commercially for Windows and Mac platforms, this game is now downloadable for “free” to all linux users. Free full version available for download only until January 2010!
The game, Aquaria, has won some awards and gets praises for its intuitive gameplay and graphics.
PS : If you are having problems with the display resolution resulting in your monitor/LCD not being to support and showing a blank screen, open terminal mode
Press “Ctrl-Alt-F1″ on your keyboard
Login with your username and password and Stop GDM
sudo stop gdm
or
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
Copy the default-1.xml over to the Aquaria settings/preference folder as usersettings.xml [ overwriting the original]
This time the game will run in windowed mode. Change the video settings within the game until it works to your desire.
Or you could also manually adjust the parameters within the ~/.Aquaria/preferences/usersettings.xml file
However, on closer inspection, under the disclaimer on the site providing this download, it says
“Chrome OS is not related to Google. Service provided by SUSE Studio”
The dubious download site even stated its current version is 0.4.207. The version number revision is actually the current version for Google Chrome browser.
Some features listed in this non-google Chrome OS are :
Last week in Washington DC, a staff from the State Department requests permission from Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to use Mozilla Firefox instead in the office..
He says it is safer. And free! [ That did raise some laughter ].
A snippet of Hillary Clinton’s reply
“….. help us save money on stuff that we shouldn’t be wasting money on, and give us the chance to manage our resources to do more things like Firefox, okay?”
If the US of A is encouraging towards open source, why not us too?
Respect to Jim Finkle whom raised this suggestion in the DC Town Hall Meeting!
