Fun things to do with Linux.

[cheesehead]

Linux is something of a work-based OS. There are few commercial games for it, and I've found very few things that would occupy much of my time.

What fun things are there to do with Linux?

 

[Sunner]

What do you wanna do?

 

[xSauronx]

you can burn distros to cd and hurl free operating systems at people....

 

[cheesehead]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
you can burn distros to cd and hurl free operating systems at people....

Eh. I do that already with OpenOffice.

I'm a fan of old-school games, and would'nt mind some nice Tetris-y games; maybe an RPG of some sort.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Cheesehead

Originally posted by: xSauronx
you can burn distros to cd and hurl free operating systems at people....

Eh. I do that already with OpenOffice.

I'm a fan of old-school games, and would'nt mind some nice Tetris-y games; maybe an RPG of some sort.

got any lying around you can try with wine?

i have totalannihilation still, but if i put that on here, id never get *anything* done that i wanted to otherwise do

 

[drag]

There are quite a few little different tetris games that'd you can play. Lots of puzzle games and little stradigy games.

In the 'games and amusement' catagory of packages for Debian Sid has around 808 packages. A lot of those would be seperate 'game' and 'data' packages. So there are probably about 300-400 different little games there.

A few are bigger, but most are just little things. Some bigger games would be like Flight Gear Flight Simulator, which is actually used in professional simulators, torcs, vdrift, battle for wensoth, tremulous, nexuiz, lincity-ng etc etc.

Then there are a few online MMORPG, mostly in development.

Like this:
http://www.planeshift.it/about.html


Now all I talked about was free software games for the most part.

Aside from that there are a handfull of native commercial games as well as lots of emulators. MAME arcade emulators. Dosbox for dos games. Emulators for sega genesis, snes, nes, atari, gameboy etc etc.


Some websites:
http://www.happypenguin.org/
http://www.linuxgames.com/
http://www.tuxgames.com/
http://www.linux-gamers.net/

Then besides games and such you can do things like setup streaming media servers, or setup a blog or CMS or whatever sort of website. Usually it's not very difficult to get things like Drupal going.

 

[drag]

Oh here is something I found for some Linux hilarity.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yMbuSR5cXcI

It's Linux running on the Ipod Nano. I know that it's not what your asking, but it's funny.

Ipod nano can't play video and such with just Apple's stuff. But with Linux on it it not only can play video, but play Doom.

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: drag
Oh here is something I found for some Linux hilarity.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yMbuSR5cXcI

It's Linux running on the Ipod Nano. I know that it's not what your asking, but it's funny.

Ipod nano can't play video and such with just Apple's stuff. But with Linux on it it not only can play video, but play Doom.

..haha. that's a kick. iPod Doomers are the next wave.

 

[Abzstrak]

go play some games,
http://www.transgaming.com/index.php?mo...entExpress&func=display&ceid=2&meid=-1

and dont complain it isnt free, it is cheap

 

[SilentRavens]

You could try ADOM, just happens to be one of the most stupidly hard CRPGs out there (at least to start anyway).