And as? We gamers are getting an extreme love overload these days.
The project is interesting since Debian created in Debconf 12 the «Debian Game Team«. The goal of this team is simple:
A team aimed at holding meetings on an IRC channel and discussing games, creating «screenshot party's«, LiveCD's of Debian images for gamers, Screencasts about the games available in Debian and complete databases with the descriptions, downloads and directions to the pages of the game developers; and of course, include them in your repositories.
All this is interesting, because although it is not a project to develop games, it is one to facilitate the knowledge of games on different platforms.
They must have already created a Wiki to explain and organize the team, so I recommend that if you are one of those who like games and want to help, do it, you don't have to know how to program;).
In the short term we can see how the gaming environment grows in Linux, I can't imagine it in the long term. What will come next?
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WOW, what's going on ???? is it spring linux ???
If it's like arabic spring, there better be no linux spring lol
Totally agree xD if it were exactly like the Arab Spring it would only serve to make Linux disappear in the end along with its principles.
There are already a thousand spins of distros dedicated to games and they all suck, what can a distro like Debian, full of packages with cobwebs and versions of prehistoric games, bring you?
If you read well, they seek to do more than a spin or a flavor, what they want to do is a dynamic team of players ... their contribution is not specifically to develop but to inform.
True.
WORST.
I hate people who want to discredit the efforts that others make ... whatever they may be ...
Msx then what do you want? That nobody risks and nothing is done ?. I congratulate the people of Debian for forming a group of gamers (and I hope there will be many more groups) ... you don't have to be so antisocial, better to be grouped than isolated and separated, right? In a few weeks maybe back to debian testing ... is having some small bugs with weekly build.
Well, being such a responsible and experienced team, I am sure they will do a great job. And of course, they will do a job ... Not like others who spend their lives criticizing and throwing garbage in the air because it is the only thing they have in mind.
Excellent about the Debian team. Initiative is what the vast majority of distros lack.
Very good initiative and even more so if it is Debian, even though those of Canonical seek the same objective. 🙂
Debian hardly gets into many ways, but when it does, it works out ... I'm not a gamer, I think games stagnate people, but I'm 100% with Debian. @msx CuidaT.
Debian has "cobwebbed packages" because its priority is stability, since it is used for servers (Stable branch). If you want newer packages use the Testing branch (recommended for Desktops) or SID (Unstable branch).