I have an xbox that'll run Linux (currently gentoo based) I'd be willing to loan that to a stand - may draw a few lookers :)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 01/04/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Clayton
</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew@digital-domain.net">andrew@digital-domain.net</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;">
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:37:49 +0800, Nistur Effee wrote:<br><br>> I agree, different machines running a variety of programs is<br>> important. However we need to make it interesting. I currently have a<br>> selection of emulators running on my laptop and PC along with an XBox
<br>> controller and modified cable (usb attachment) that runs on virtually<br>> all of them. Add to this Cedega and a couple of games and you have a<br>> decent games section. I'm not saying all students are gamers. But
<br>> thinking about people I know who don't use linux, a lot of them are<br>> very attached to their games. If we could show that a lot of games<br>> are playable (any WoWers care to demo their skills there?) as well as
<br>> there being programs to cater to virtually every need ("virtually"<br>> only put in because someone is likely to say that they have the need<br>> to launch nukes with a single button press or something) I think that
<br>> it may be a success. I am not sure whether I agree that new users are<br>> necessarily better to draw in yet more new users though. I think<br>> there should be a variety, new users to give the cheesey success
<br>> stories and more experienced users in case there are already people<br>> who are very comfortable with windoze/Mac OSs but just not switched.<br><br>We should also not ignore the many and varied native Linux<br>
games available. Freedoom, Quake III Arena, Frozen Bubble, ppracer,<br>GLTron, GL 117, Chromium, and Super Tux are but a few I have installed.<br><br>> Again, only my view, it's up to the society to make up their mind
<br>> what they want<br><br>Perhaps the *new* people should peruse the mailing list archives and<br>the LUG web site to see what we got up to in the past.<br><br><br>Andrew<br><br>_______________________________________________
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