Linux Gaming

I tried Google’s BlogSearch today with keyword “Gentoo Linux” just for the heck of it. Interesting, the result coincided with an idea I had in mind before. The first post is this article from TheInternetOne and it summarizes the idea of integrating Gentoo, Linux, and some other crypto architecture to create a secure platform to develop Gentoo Gaming environment. The logistics would be making the game CD bootable via Gentoo and this can turn our PC’s into console boxes.

I love the idea of being able to turn PC into a console. Back in 1995 I used to argue with my buddy whether a PC is cool or a console is cool, since I was a layal PC gamer, while he was fed with console games growing up. Nevertheless, we have to face the shortcoming of a console: they are only gaming machines, can’t do much elsewise (yes, I think allowing Play Station and XBox users to browse the internet is a great idea) Therefore I would say if the hardware resource is allowed, there should be an option when booting into the games, to allow users to do web-browsing also. The recent trends of technologies such as GoogleDesktop, blogging, del.icio.us, flickr…etc have demonstrate the posibility to eliminate the idea of “personal desktop,” instead, they successfully showed us how we can be living in a totally “virtual world” with all the data are available on line, with security.

Gaming and Multimedia have been tough spots for desktop users to switch from Microsoft to Linux. To make a long story short, Linux had not live up to the hype on hardware detection and user friendliness. But all these has dramatically changed in recent years. hardware detection has been improved drastically, while more and more desktop converts helped to get the latest distros more user-friendly. Just try the latest Ubuntu Linux if you are not persuaded yet. Also, Linux can be optimized so that resource usage efficiency can be much better than Windows. Plus Linux is more secured and less possible to get virus and spywares, at least for the time being

Behold, Microsoft and Console makers, Linux is coming to town.

[Update] This Article from SlashDot and GameSpot reminds me what I forgot to mention: The Linux Game Disk should be able to boot systems directly for browsing and gaming, and it could also be plug into a Windows or Linux system and start the game from there, probably through Cygwin, or chroot environments…

Duke Nukem Forever

Found this on digg, I hope they can truely pull this one together without disappointment. It was a fun game after all.

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