Free as in Freedom games

[tubafication]

Now, I am wondering if anybody else is a computer nerd like me and has switched to Gnu/Linux and is playing any of those games?

[Dragonmaster384]

I am a computer nerd, but not like you, because I have not switched to playing Linux games.

I have seen some good ones though, and actually play one or two that have both Linux and Windows versions.... Nexuiz is one of them, ever played it?

[Fencerjared]

I've been using ubuntu for a little while, and I don't know what you're talking about. Couldn't find anything on google either, would you mind providing a link?

[Dragonmaster384]

Originally Posted by Fencerjared

I've been using ubuntu for a little while, and I don't know what you're talking about. Couldn't find anything on google either, would you mind providing a link?

Sure: Nexuiz Homepage.

Nexuiz is a 3d FPS game, along the lines of Quake or Unreal Tournament. It is free and open source, so there are quite a few people making maps and addons for it.

[Fencerjared]

Sorry, i meant to respond to the OP. I've actually heard of Nexuiz already, just never played it.

[Dragonmaster384]

Originally Posted by Fencerjared

Sorry, i meant to respond to the OP. I've actually heard of Nexuiz already, just never played it.

Perfectly alright, I've done worse....

I think the OP is talking about Linux games in general? I don't remember what Gnu is/stands for though....

[Fencerjared]

I think the OP is talking about Linux games in general? I don't remember what Gnu is/stands for though....

"GNU's not Unix", a recursive acronym.
That's what I thought, but there is a book written by a GNU cofounder titled the same thing, so I thought it might be some type of software/games collective or something.

[tubafication]

gun/linux is the proper name for "linux", it's kinda a stallman thing, if you have ubuntu, the games are already in the repo's or get into synaptic package manager, you could also type sudo apt-get install bzflag (bzflag is just a example) into your terminal also , if you were to search, then look for linux games, not gnu/linux games, you can search for games such as bz flag, battle for wesnoth, and x moto, (those are my favorites) make sure they can run on windows if you have windows or vice versa for mac
if you get them
welcome to the world of free and open source

[Fencerjared]

I'm aware of all the stuff in the repository, was just wondering if the Free as in Freedom referred to the book Stallman wrote, or was in reference to some new games repository or game creating collective. So you're just talking about games that work or run natively in linux?

[tubafication]

oh yeah, I am, The free as in freedom refers to saying that it is not proprietary or anything, and it was stallmans thing. So I am just referring to the stuff in the repository, and I was curious how many "scapers" were using gnu/linux.
Their are some games you can get that aren't in the repos, like widelands (a clone of settlers of catan)

[telengard]

I run Linux as my desktop and server but the only "free" game I play is bzflag, and that's pretty infrequent. I'm usually playing Q3 or TA (under Wine).

~telengard