The Primary goal of the gaming machines is to show that people can buy games and play them on linux. It's known that there are some good games that are open source that run on linux. However, the general thought is that gaming is linux's biggest weakness. So I wished to demonstrate. that this was more of a perceived problem than a real one. As far as on older hardware....
<br><br>Our specs are considered below "Entry-Level" in pc-gamer such a system should be worth about $500 -$700<br><br>last months (march issue, april just came out) entry level system is<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">
case and power suppyly</span><br>400-watt atx $140<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">processor<br></span>athlon 64 3800+ x2 AM2 $145<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Motherboard<br></span>
Asus M2N4-SLI $110<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memory</span><br>1GB DDR2-800 [512 x2] $120<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Optical Drive</span><br>16x CD/Dvd-rom $20
<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hard Drive</span><br>WD 250GB 7,200RPM $60<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sound Card</span><br>onboard $0<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Video Card</span><br>Ati Radeon X1600 pro 512 $130<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Total $725<br></span><br>I Think they must use bulk prices cause these look a little low,
<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>regardless my specs were even lower probably resulting in a $500-ish machine. Now do my specs look so new? My specs are that of a machine that was good 3 - 4 years ago.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Watters</b> <<a href="mailto:michael@watters.ws">michael@watters.ws</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Caleb Cushing wrote:<br>> I know this is (to my knowledge) the first time MDLUG has been made<br>> aware of this. But, Currently the gaming section of the computer<br>> lounge may or may not happen we have 1 machine for sure committed, 1
<br>> (that meet specs) If we need it, and another (that doesn't meet specs)<br>> if we need it. Currently the show of Gaming on linux will be moderate<br>> at best and perhaps poor. I am currently thinking it would be better
<br>> not to show off at all than to have a couple of so so systems.<br>><br>> The Goal<br>><br>> 1.)Show that Linux can run "Blockbuster" games (meaning proprietary<br>> bought it at best buy) well
<br>> 2.) Show that linux can beat vista's in 3D desktops.<br>How about open source games? Cube is a pretty decent FPS and should run<br>on older hardware. Battle for Wesnoth is a nice strategy game and<br>doesn't need a lot to run either. Just check out the top rated list on
<br>Happy Penguin, should be plenty of stuff to show off there.<br><br><a href="http://happypenguin.org/list?sort=avg_rating">http://happypenguin.org/list?sort=avg_rating</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>
-- <br>Caleb Cushing