Marc Paré a écrit :
Le 2010-10-19 13:30, George J. Walsh a écrit :
Morning, Marc:
I sent a private note to Florin, supporting his wish for gaming support
in Mageia because of the Mandriva history of attempting to offer a full
package for users.
That got me thinking about the possible use of a 'meta task' setup to
handle major divisions. After all, that's what MCC attempts to install
web services, desktops, data bases and printers. So why not gaming?
As I explained to Florin, it is my feeling that there is a lot of gaming
out there which is commercial and therefore not even ported to Linux,
but then again, I just don't know. (I don't play games :-))
I also explained my geekiness was more in the world of psychobabble than
with computerese.
By the way, nice to have an exchange with a fellow Canadian.
The best,
George
Thanks, nice to exchange with you as well. Hope the Gaming support
comes through. We will see what we can do.
Marc
Waterloo ON Canada
Marketing Team Member
Note that there are already quite a few games on the Mandriva free dvd,
in the contrib section. So it's just a matter of adding a Gaming group,
and possible a Gaming task option.
This would work really well with a tree selection, where one could
select the group (Gaming), and/or deselect/select individual
applications. Since gamers could well have a good idea of their game
preferences.
Also note that many commercial games have a free (at least in cost)
Linux version.
(That makes at least 3 Canadians here.)
- André (andre999)
