News regarding Linux gaming

 Big Game Hunt: Can 3D Graphics Give Linux An Edge On The Desktop?, Sep 20, 2005

Despite a very limited commercial market for Linux as a game platform, the top two companies in the 3D graphics chipset market, ATI and NVIDIA, officially support the operating system.

More work needs to be done on Linux at the operating system level, grids will have limited appeal, and there will be a mass movement to embrace clustering software among organizations large and small.

Linspire-oriented gamers will be pleased to learn that Linspire's CNR ("click and run") warehouse now stocks TransGaming's Cedega, which will make "hundreds of Triple-A rated Windows games" available for Linspire users, "with minimal installation," according to Linspire.

In an interview with Impress PC Watch, [Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken] Kutaragi disclosed that he plans to install the Linux operating system on the PS3's hard disc drive (HDD) so it will be recognized as a computer, rather than a mere console.

Adobe Systems has released version 7 of its Acrobat software for creating PDF files, with upgraded collaboration features and a beta version of its free Adobe Reader 7 for Linux.

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