Live Linux Gaming 0.9.5 (live.linuX-gamers.net)
Final Thoughts & Who Should Use It
First of all, I’d like a new name for this project. live.linuX-gamers.net is really awkward to keep typing or pasting into this review over and over again. Please somebody give this neat project a new name like Linux Live Games or Linux Super Games or Kick Ass Linux Games or something obvious.
Far be it from me to actually suggest involving the marketing droids as they usually annoy me but perhaps involving one of them to come up with a brand identity for this project might be a good idea? I know that the name is the same as the URL but there must be a better URL that can be used for it too.
That said, I like this project a lot. No, it’s not going compete with Windows based gaming but it provides some fun games that run on Linux with virtually no configuration headaches or problems for users. The goal of live.linuX-games.net is quite noble and we should all try to be supportive of it as an alternative to having to install games into a particular distribution to run them.
Despite my virtual machine experiences with it, I give it a big thumbs up.
If you’re a Linux user and want to try some games, download it and give it a shot. You might have a fun time checking it out. If you run into any problems don’t forget that there is a discussion forum on the site where you can get help.
Summary Table:
| Product: | live.linuX-games.net 0.9.5 |
| Web Site: | http://live.linuX-games.net |
| Price: | Free |
| Pros: | Provides a nice range of free Linux games and doesn’t require installation or configuration to run on x86 computers. |
| Cons: | Needs a new name and some games might be considered out of date. Can’t really compete with the selection of games available for Windows. |
| Summary: | live.linuX-games.net provides a good -albeit not cutting edge – selection of games that run on pretty much any x86 computer and doesn’t require installation or configuration. |
| Rating: | 3.5/5 |
(3 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)
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Hmm, sounds interesting! I am not a game player, but I have an eight year old son who loves to browse the Web and sometimes also play computer games. I built up a PCLinuxOS setup for him – and even named it “KarstenLinuxOS”, which he enjoyed. (He’s smart enough to know that it is really PCLinuxOS, but he thought it was cool that I made the boot loader have his name on it). I mentioned creating a “SimplyKatelyn” version for his sister with SimplyMEPIS, but he wondered if she’d realize that it was really MEPIS. I told him that there really was a KateOS a few years ago, but I think that faded.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Arch Linux is a really fast binary distribution, possibly the fastest there is. The pacman package manager is definitely the fastest binary packager out there, and Arch based systems run really fast, and you can have the latest stuff on them. Should anything ever be missing, you can use AUR instead of pacman to build your own packages from source. So having a gaming system based on Arch ought to be reasonably snappy, and if this system isn’t too loaded down, the live performance ought to be OK.
Based on your comments on it, I am tempted to grab a copy, not for me, necessarily, but for my son. It may be worth at least a look, and who knows, I may at least TRY one or two games. Just a lot of other things to do, that’s all.
Decent review; enough to get me thinking about it…
Good review.
I suspect you’d have trouble running many games on a VM, regardless of the OS involved. Games often want access to the underlying hardware, and VMs don’t usually provide that directly.
@ masinick:
Brian I’d definitely recommend giving it a download. All it will cost you is a bit of bandwidth and a CD or DVD. Not sure which games your son might like but just letting him play around with them could be a good time for him.
@ Kevin Wagner:
Yes, KG. I don’t recommend using a VM at all. I did it because I can never resist the urge to try it. But I’ve been down that road before, particularly with trying to run Warhammer Online on my macs, so I know that VM’s suck for gaming. They have gotten better over the years but still really aren’t viable for 3D games.
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Just curious. Did you try to boot it up on your Mac? If you have a newer machine with Intel hardware, I would think it would work.
@ tlmck:
No, I didn’t tlmck. If I do at some point I’ll post back and let you know how it works.
may i suggest Unetbootin next time for this type of distro..
you can try the actual distro without burning it to a dvd or cd
works exactly as the live-cd was intended to , but much faster since it will actually run directly from HD, nothing gets installed, so no worries.
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