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FunkY
08-09-11, 15:53
Anybody tried the gaming distro live linux gamers (http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=home)?

I just stumbled across it today, thought I'd download it and give it a go...

It's a live DVD (so you don't have to install anything, don't even need a harddrive), full of popular linux games...

I'll let you know how it goes, but I can see this becoming a permanent addition to one of my USB sticks :p
f12f12
08-09-11, 16:14
sound like that could be fun at college when we have some spare time.
FunkY
08-09-11, 21:06
Dammit. I downloaded the "big" version without paying attention to file size... It's too big to fit on any of my thumb drives... Guess I'll have to burn it :(
waba
08-09-11, 23:28
ooo this sounds interesting!! i always found the live cds ran slowly though, wont that affect the games?

i like that it supports network boot...lan party :D
Lynx
11-09-11, 20:22
Depends on the live CD, if it goes fully to ram should be fast!
Plan9
12-09-11, 08:43
Anybody tried the gaming distro live linux gamers (http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=home)?

I just stumbled across it today, thought I'd download it and give it a go...

It's a live DVD (so you don't have to install anything, don't even need a harddrive), full of popular linux games...

I'll let you know how it goes, but I can see this becoming a permanent addition to one of my USB sticks :p

Is this the one that's based on ArchLinux?

If so, I've read good things about it but never used it personally

[edit]
This is the ArchLinux fork I've read about :)
I'll have a play tonight.

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ooo this sounds interesting!! i always found the live cds ran slowly though, wont that affect the games?

i like that it supports network boot...lan party :D

The problem with live CD's is that optical drives run slower than HDDs so load times on live CDs are severely impacted.

However once stuff is cached, it should run smoothly (and games, particularly, need to be cached anyway to get any kind of frame rate - even fancy DirectX games on Windows running off fast HDDs)


Depends on the live CD, if it goes fully to ram should be fast!

You wouldn't really want to whole live image going to RAM as you'd be dumping more than one games worth of data. A particularly bad idea when there's no swap partition to page to.