Without a doubt SuperTuxKart is among the most popular Linux games and among open source and distributed projects under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3. SuperTuxKart It is cross-platform, it runs on Linux, macOS, Windows and Android systems.
Super Tux Kart is a free kart racing video game that features mascots from various open source projects since it started as a fork of TuxKart (inspired by Mario Kart) originally in 2000, but SuperTuxKart was born until 2007 and to date SuperTuxKart is in active development by its community.
About the new version of SuperTuxKart 1.0
The developers of SuperTuxKart have released the new version SuperTuxKart 1.0 as this represents such a big jump in numbering, since a few weeks ago version 0.10 was in development but the developers made the decision to make the jump to v1.0.
However, SuperTuxKart 1.0 is one of the most important releases in the 12-year history of the project.
And it is that this can give to think that it results in many changes that will be presented, but this version 1.0 does not come with quantity but with quality.
Well within the main novelties that are presented in this new release by SuperTuxKart 1.0 is the ability to play onlineYes, that's the way it is over the network, it not only allows you to play with friends in a room or in different countries, but it also eliminates the need to split the screen, which makes the gaming experience much more enjoyable.
Although from the player's point of view, this game does not differ from the local game.
However, developers warn that playing with people on the other side of the world may not be the best idea, since They recommend us to play in conditions where the ping does not exceed 100 ms.
Since in higher values, this can cause in the game some lags in the karts, especially if the packets are lost in the transmission of the data.
The server must be placed on a stable link, but the game does not require high bandwidth. Apparently, for 10 players, the upload speed of 1.2 megabits is sufficient.
Option to create your own server
The option to play online is very good, but Another highlight is the ability to create your "own server". This created server can be run locally, but the community also runs various public game servers, including public player rankings.
The task was very difficult, since the implementation of network connections took 14 months and more than 20 thousand lines of code in 2.500 confirmations.
New tracks and improvements to Karts
On the part of the graphical interface of the game, SuperTuxKart 1.0 adds more game tracks and modes to choose from to the game.
Since with the arrival of the online game you can play a classic race, play soccer (like the Rocket League), play against the clock, fight in the arena or get the flag of another player.
How to install Supertuxkart 1.0 on Linux?
At the moment this version of Supertuxkart 1.0 is available as a binary package for Linux, so it will take a few days to be made available to the repositories of the main Linux distributions.
Although to be able to enjoy this new version for those who are Ubuntu users and derivatives of it, can add a repository which has already updated the version.
To add it, just open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stk/dev
Update our entire list of repositories with:
sudo apt-get update
And finally proceed to the installation of Supertuxkart in our system:
sudo apt-get install supertuxkart
For the rest of the distributions you can download the binary package from the following link.
Then they have to unzip the downloaded package and inside the folder they will find a launch script "run_game.sh" which you can give execution permissions or from the terminal execute it with:
sh run_game.sh