[ale] Best Linux distro for Games/Multimedia

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Fri Nov 23 18:29:15 EST 2007


James Taylor wrote:
> I can recommend openSUSE 10.3.
> 
> It provides links to all the add-on repositories you need for the media stuff, I believe it even includes DIV-X support.  I run Kaffeine for most of my media, with Amarok for mp3 management.
> 
> My son insists on being able to play all of the first person shooter games he can find, and they work well using Cedega.  
> I hear you can get the base wine set up to work, but I'm lazy so I let others do the heavy lifting for games.
> 

Don't forget that many popular fps series, like Unreal Tournament, 
Quake, Doom, and Enemy Territory have native linux versions.

A good resource is http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/guides:start . The 
navigation menu is in the right column.

-Brian



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