One of my basic grumbles about Linux from the early days was that the lack of games in Linux consoles.
This has been addressed by gamers from Berlin.
Ig Live CD and DVD (I cannot download even Knoppix Games in this Paradise Country with the slowest domestic paid Telecom Service) have addressed this void.
CD is good (I try my best to download the DVD-might take 2 weeks of continuous downloading) and enjoyed playing Pingus very much.
The game is topical.
Global Warming one of my favorite topics now.
I live in this hill city called Kandy for Kanda (in Sinhala it is the hill) with the range of temperatures was between 68 Fahrenheit to 78-80, 40 years ago.
Now it's temperature is well above 80 and topped 97 F recently in my city (I checked the temperature when ever I can and record it with two digital thermometers with the date and time- I had to search well over 6 months to find an accurate thermometer).Which speaks volumes and need not have a Science Degree to understand.
Our politicians who enter (99% of them) the parliament with (bear) minimum of education want know how to read a child's temperature but runs the Ministry of Health and other important Ministries.
Some of them do not know how to operate a computer and we do not have a proper IT education in school curriculum.
Talking about Linux is like Greek to them (They only know Sinhala or Tamil but most of the Tamil can speak better English than Sinhalayas).That is why I have to write this in a blog.Sorry for the diversion, I am a simple political animal with a vision for Science (visit my writing at www.writeclique.net) Education but IT and Linux is one of my aberrations!
So well done boys and girls in Berlin you are doing a wonderful job.
I have one suggestion foe you.If I were a kid I would have preferred what I going to say in a second.
Gamer's aradise
Gamer's Paradise
Have compiz included in the distribution package with few other utilities Like abiword and scientific utilities.
I thick ARCH can very well do that!
So me the kid can switch the desktop from game to utility to fool my mum and dad who have an average working knowledge in Microsoft with only one desktop (like our politicians) in mind.
But don't do the mistake of QIMO but SHOULD have parental control over the Internet which leads to many vices there.
If any one of you abroad can send me a working games DVD (Including Knoppix) I can copy and distribute it in this god (84.000 of them) forsaken country.
Keep in touch with by email please.
I will write about XBMC (Linux Media Center) and Sabayon soon.
Dr.Asoka
