Games on Linux

[fingal]

My partial solution to the games issue is to play a MUD from time to time. They don't suit everyone (being text based) but if you have a colourful imagination then they can be fun.

[stubbe]

if you want free ones, to my opinion these are really classy opensource games, take a look :

neverball
foobillard
wesnoth
cube
nexuis
code red alien arena 2006
bzflag
vega strike
Super Tux
gl-117
flight gear
Torc
Racer
vega strike
tux racer
marathon aleph one

[carlosponti]

found this one for my wife http://www.secretmaryo.org/

[genesus]

Nethack, the most addictive game ever

[carlosponti]

http://red.planetarena.org/

http://www.warsow.net/

http://dark-oberon.sourceforge.net/

[a12ctic]

when it comes to openGL on linux compared to openGL on windows, linux definitely comes off better, and online gaming makes windows just look bad. in linux my ping times were cut in half!

FYI, opengl and the pings are not related, the reason is that windows TCP/IP coding is bsd's code with a whole bunch of **** piled on top of it and some re-coding, its not a suprize that its much less ineficient

[charlieg]

I maintain a list and commentary covering the best open source games. There's a lot more quality Free games than you might think at first.

Check out the list at freegamer.blogspot.com.