Linux game console ready to ship

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5134160105.html

"Envizions announced that it is taking orders for an open-source Linux
gaming system, and will start shipping beta units to game developers,
resellers, and software partners on April 10. The EVO Smart Console is
based on a 2.4GHz Athlon, and includes a Fedora-based Linux distro."

Rahul

[Jef Spaleta]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  Hi
>
>  http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5134160105.html
>
>  "Envizions announced that it is taking orders for an open-source Linux
>  gaming system, and will start shipping beta units to game developers,
>  resellers, and software partners on April 10. The EVO Smart Console is
>  based on a 2.4GHz Athlon, and includes a Fedora-based Linux distro." 

whoa!

-jef

[Jason Benedict Low]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  Hi
>
>  http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5134160105.html
>
>  "Envizions announced that it is taking orders for an open-source Linux
>  gaming system, and will start shipping beta units to game developers,
>  resellers, and software partners on April 10. The EVO Smart Console is
>  based on a 2.4GHz Athlon, and includes a Fedora-based Linux distro."
>
>  Rahul
>
>     
Wow, finally a dream came true, LINUX powered gaming console!

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[Kamin Horvath]

Someone else tried this before. Basically it failed because it didn't  
have the support of developers. I wouldn't be surprised if this one  
did too.

Kamin Horvath
Fedora Ambassadors USA


On Apr 2, 2009, at 11:10 PM, Jason Benedict Low  
<jbenedictlow(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5134160105.html
> >
> > "Envizions announced that it is taking orders for an open-source  
> > Linux
> > gaming system, and will start shipping beta units to game developers,
> > resellers, and software partners on April 10. The EVO Smart Console  
> > is
> > based on a 2.4GHz Athlon, and includes a Fedora-based Linux distro."
> >
> > Rahul
> >
> >
>  Wow, finally a dream came true, LINUX powered gaming console!
>
>  -- 
>  Best Regards,
>  Jason
>  Singapore Fedora Ambassador
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Jason_Benedict_Low
>  VoIP = sip:[e-mail]
>  ------ When i work nobody care. When i rest everybody stare. ------
>
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[magesh]

> >> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5134160105.html
> >>
> >> "Envizions announced that it is taking orders for an open-source Linux
> >> gaming system, and will start shipping beta units to game developers,
> >> resellers, and software partners on April 10. The EVO Smart Console is
> >> based on a 2.4GHz Athlon, and includes a Fedora-based Linux distro."
> >>
> >> Rahul
> >>
> >>
> >>  Wow, finally a dream came true, LINUX powered gaming console!
> >
> > --
>
>  
i have always had a dream that one day linux might also have games like the
windows... but usually the linux games are not like the others (eg: crisis,
gta)
is it possible for linux to have these kind of games.. Gaming is the best
idea of marketting (60% of people using windows, does it for gamings)
I also thought it would be great if the gaming companies like the Electronic
arts, ubisoft could create games for linux (atleast a linux support for the
games they create like the NFS)
Then most of the people would migrate to linux.... i still dream about these
hope to see it one day
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[Rahul Sundaram]

magesh wrote:

>  i have always had a dream that one day linux might also have games
> like
>  the windows... but usually the linux games are not like the others (eg:
>  crisis, gta)
>  is it possible for linux to have these kind of games.. Gaming is the
>  best idea of marketting (60% of people using windows, does it for gamings)
>  I also thought it would be great if the gaming companies like the
>  Electronic arts, ubisoft could create games for linux (atleast a linux
>  support for the games they create like the NFS)
>  Then most of the people would migrate to linux.... i still dream about
>  these hope to see it one day 
Electronics Arts or any other game company won't port games for Linux
unless there is a real commercial demand. Look up the cost for producing
a modern 3d shooter. It goes up to over 20 million dollars and has
something like a TB of content. This is unlikely to happen without a
huge desktop share leading to a proportional customer demand or some
vendor paying these companies outright to get a good port running.
Sorry, there are no easy answers, here.

Rahul

[magesh]

>  Electronics Arts or any other game company won't port games for Linux
>  unless there is a real commercial demand. Look up the cost for producing
>  a modern 3d shooter. It goes up to over 20 million dollars and has
>  something like a TB of content. This is unlikely to happen without a
>  huge desktop share leading to a proportional customer demand or some
>  vendor paying these companies outright to get a good port running.
>  Sorry, there are no easy answers, here.
>  
yes, it is not possible unless there is a real commercial demand. If there
is any other way to make this possible then there would be a revolution in
the linux demand ( running these 3d games in wine is trouble-some)  i also
thought of creating some great emulator, which would make this possible...
(like the dos-box, other game emulators)
Which would enable people to install these games .exe at ease (unlike the UI
in wine) and play it safely

 Just an idea

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