MandrakeSoft, announces the availability of boxed sets of Mandrake Linux Version 8.1 in retail outlets throughout the world and on MandrakeStore. There are four versions of the 8.1 product, each designed to suit user needs: Mandrake Linux Standard Edition 8.1, Mandrake Linux PowerPack Edition 8.1, Mandrake Linux ProSuite Edition 8.1, and Mandrake Linux ProSuite old. Also, with the help of TransGaming Technologies, developers of software portability solutions that seamlessly allow cutting edge games to operate on the Linux platform, MandrakeSoft announced the release of the Mandrake Linux Gaming Edition. Designed specifically for gamers, this release bundles Mandrake Linux 8.1 Standard Edition, with Electronic Arts’ The Sims, the popular virtual simulation game that allows players to create a neighborhood of simulated people known as “Sims” and control their lives.
That’s *not* cheap!
I wonder when they’ll release the PPC edition.
Nice to see decent games finally making it to the Linux Platform (even if it is quite old, I bought Sims for Windows a year or more ago)
Obviously there has been games all along, but for somebody like me not into FPS or Board type games there was not much choice. Where are the big hits.
I just wonder how games perform, my previous experience is that the platform is far from ready for fast modern games due to performance/configuration and driver problems, but this may have changed recently.
Still, any games news is good news!