Links: Programs and New Games for GNU/Linux Desktops
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-07-22 07:56:22 UTC
- Modified: 2010-07-22 07:56:22 UTC
Summary: News about applications and games that run under GNU/Linux
Applications
DeVeDe is an application that converts various video file formats into a disc that can be played in a DVD player. Other applications and tool chains can be coaxed into doing this but DeVeDe has the advantage of being a dedicated utility that has been designed for a single function.
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Instructionals
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Games
Things may be changing though, over the past couple of years more and more indie games have been released for both PC and Mac, and to a lesser extent, Linux. More significantly, in May Valve updated Steam to include support for Mac, when talking to Doug Lombardi (Valve’s VP of Marketing) he made a bold statement “Steam for the Mac is the biggest news for Steam since the platform was launched in March 2004.”
My friend Hamish Wilson emailed me about a new classic roguelike game named Dungeons of Dredmor and it’s being developed by a new indie GNU/Linux friendly company named Gaslamp
At the end of last month the VDrift project did their first snapshot release in more than a year for this open-source drift racing game that's supported on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. The VDrift 2010-06-30 snapshot incorporates a great deal of changes, among which are a rewritten physics engine and a new deferred rendering engine that brings a great deal of visual improvements to this free software game. In this article are some screenshots on this OpenGL racing game and more of the new work found within this release.
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