Desktop & Apps
When you first boot into your SuperGamer desktop you will notice immediately that this is a gaming distribution. There’s an awesomely cool dragon surrounded by rocks and molten lava. Frankly, it reminds me of Smaug from the JRR Tolkien book “The Hobbit.” A very nice touch that adds some great atmosphere to SuperGamer.
While the focus of SuperGamer is games you’ll also be able to do most of your usual computing tasks as SuperGamer also comes with a fine selection of Linux desktop applications. Here’s a sample of some of what you’ll find available on your SuperGamer desktop:
Graphics
GIMP
GQView
Gtkam
MtPaint
Shutterbug
Internet
Firefox
Chestnut Dialer
D4X
Azureus
gFTP
LimeWire
Grsynch
XChat
Wifi-Radar
Multimedia
Graveman
K9Copy
MhWaveEdit
MPlayer
RipperX
Xine
XMMS
X264 Encoder
Office
Adie
Calendar
Fox Calculator
Gnumeric Spreadsheet
KOffice
J-Pilot
OpenOffice.org
X Calculator
XPDF
I can’t imagine a lot of Linux gamers spending their time in KOffice when they can be playing Quake Wars but, hey, it’s there if you want it right? After you’ve worn your fingers to the bone playing games you can then work on that report for work for a couple of minutes so you don’t have to feel that you were goofing off to much.
Always nice to mix a tiny bit of productivity in with a huge bunch of game playing. Takes the guilty edge off and lets you claim you were busy working if anybody asks where you’ve been doing for the last 6 hours.
(4 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)
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Well, I’m not a gaming fan, and I have also never created a dual layer DVD – though I have used a few of them from Linux Format (UK) mags and they are great. That’s where I first got to try Virtualbox OSE and it convinced me that I was “missing out on something”.
I have used Vector Linux before, and so has my eight year old son, who would probably be the target if I were to give a distro like this a try. I might be more inclined to go to a fast order DVD shop though and just plunk down a few bucks (as long as it wasn’t more than a few bucks) to get this distro.
Chances are that I will pass on this one since it just isn’t my style. You did, however, Jim, make this an interesting review, interesting enough to make me wonder, “Am I missing out on something?” ;-) Well, I’ll resist, but it was a good review, thanks!
“won’t get the full version of Ultimate Tournament 2004″
Should that not read “Unreal Tournament”? and, although I like th econtent of your interview, I don’t think you did it justice. Having no sound on 2 machines in a gaming distro is more than a little bug. I would have rather you’d worked out how to fix it and posted that as well.
Homer wrote:
Thanks for catching that goof on UT, Homer. It’s pretty funny since I used to play it all the time. I think I had a brain fart when I was writing that part of the review.
As far as the sound goes, I was not able to get it working. I did try but it may have been a problem with the macs, I’m just not sure.
Brian Masinick wrote:
Brian,
Well it might be worth downloading it if you can burn a dual layer DVD. But if you really aren’t interested in gaming then this is probably a remastered distro you can pass on.
But I’m sure there are some gamers that will like it.
Heh, heh. Yeah, good point dragonmouth. It’s cutting edge and retro at the same time.
Would an 8GB Flash drive and Unetbootin work for this?
I thought this was based on Puppy when I saw those text config screens, the only place I’ve seen those in the last 4 years.
Monty
Why make this a dual-layer exclusive? I’m interested but would rather have a volume 1 and volume 2 that I can burn straight away, without having to presumably buy a single DL disc from a local computer shop at an inflated price (don’t want to buy bulk).
The author has limited the popularity of his release.
I am an example. I downloaded it. Failed to burn the disk (k3b was not good at all at telling why). I then gave up. My son’s machine is running LMDE now. It will likely stay that way to.
Better than a second disk is a nice repo where I can download what I want, when I want.