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Linux gaming refers to playing or developing games for Linux operating systems.

Open source games

Vega Strike, a space flight simulation.
Nexuiz, a first-person shooter.

A few original open source games have obtained notability:

Clones and remakes

There are a larger number of open source clones and remakes of classic games:

Commercial games

In some cases, developers have released Linux versions of their games directly. id Software together with Raven Software ported Doom 3, the Quake series, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars; Bioware released Neverwinter Nights; Epic Games released Unreal Tournament 2003 and Unreal Tournament 2004 and they will port Unreal Tournament 3; Croteam released the Serious Sam series; Introversion released Darwinia, Uplink, and DEFCON. S2games released a Linux client of their title Savage 2 soon after it's launch.

More commonly, an independent company has taken on the task of porting prominent Windows games to Linux. Loki Software was the first such company, and between 1998 and 2002 ported Descent³, Heretic II, Heroes of Might and Magic III, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns, Myth II: Soulblighter, Railroad Tycoon II, Rune, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Sim City 3000, Tribes II, and Unreal Tournament. Linux Game Publishing was founded in 2001 in response to the impending demise of Loki, and has brought Cold War, Postal², and X²: The Threat to Linux. icculus.org[1] has ported Aliens versus Predator, Duke Nukem 3D, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, and Rise of the Triad.

Emulation

There are also APIs, virtual machines, and machine emulators that provide binary compatibility:

Game development

As far as development is concerned, library support for Linux gaming is provided by OpenGL, ALSA, OpenAL and SDL, a cross-platform multimedia wrapper around system-dependent libraries. The DRI project provides open source video card drivers, and NVIDIA and ATI also release binary kernel modules for their video cards. Linux also runs on several game consoles, including the Xbox,[2] PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and GameCube,[3] which allows game developers without an expensive game development kit to access console hardware.


Gaming Linux Distros

http://live.linux-gamers.net/ Linux gamers Is a Live-DVD game oriented Linux distribution, that offers limited, if not at all general usage. It's made as a live-DVD distribution onlym and doesn't contain an installer on the DVD. http://ultimateedition.info/Ubuntu_Ultimate_1.4_Gamers/ Ubuntu Ultimate Edition gamer's edition is a ubuntu based distro that has included many linux games by default unlike Linux-gamers it is not meant as a live-dvd portable enviroment, and so it doesn't have somne specialised driver instalation

See also

References

  1. ^ The Spring Project
  2. ^ Xbox Linux Wiki
  3. ^ Gamecube Linux Wiki

Distros

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