games spin

[Hans de Goede]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>>
>> Do we want to put autodownloader using games on the spin? Sofar I 
>> deliberately didn't put any on there.
> 
> Is there any reason not to? I can see some reasons why but I would like 
> to hear your thoughts on that. One reason why I think we should do that 
> is because it is useful to demo some of the nice games in Linux. As far 
> as licensing is concerned, IMO gaming content restrictions can be a bit 
> more than gaming engines due to the artistic values in the former though 
> I definitely prefer less restrictions.
> 
> In most conferences these days, they have bandwidth that pulling in game 
> content just before the demo is not a problem and doing such a demo for 
> a upcoming local FOSS conference is of one my main motivations behind 
> working on this. Btw, I haven't include the regular GNOME games packages 
> in the kickstart file. Do we want to do that?
> 

Erm,

I just think it looks silly to ask people to download some 75 Mb's (to RAM!) 
after they have just downloaded 3 Gb worth of DVD.

What do the others think? Wart? Chris(topher) ?

Regards,

Hans