Comments on: Game Development Bootable Linux Distribution

By: denudar

denudar — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:30:18 +0000

I am also interested in that, but I would suggest gentoo as the base distro.. it is very flexible and highly optimizable. I am currently working on a gentoo on usb-stick.. or CompactFlash.. that I need for running an app made with pygame..

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:33:39 +0000

Yes, I’ve heard good things about PCLinuxOS, but haven’t tried it personally. I think it allows you to make a remastered ISO by using just one command, which is very convenient.

Sure, maybe we can work on this. Let’s start with a few ideas, then hopefully this can turn into something useful for many people .

By: Charles Joseph Christie II

Charles Joseph Christie II — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:36:09 +0000

I’d like to make, or help make, a game programming distro. I was already going to make one for my dad’s family day business, so why not make one for this too? If I did, it would be based on PCLinuxOS. I love that distro.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:05:30 +0000

It’s great to know that your project is progressing well, Horst . When I heard of this project of yours, I had no idea that I would need to have something like that shortly after! I’ll elaborate on this in a future post . Good luck with your project!

By: Horst JENS

Horst JENS — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:43:41 +0000

Progress report:
i made big progress last night (thanks to the cool concept of Slax Linux – see http://www.slax.org) and to date i am able to boot from usb-stick (256MB) or from CDROM a linux with 2.6 kernel, python2.5, Tkinter, idle, pythondoc, pygame1.7, pygame-examples and kde desktop.
I still wait for the new pygame1.8 to appear on the pygame website. Hopefully until then i manage to include wxpython, xfc instead of kde, flashplayer and maybe even mangae to fit on a 128 MB usb stick. Not sure if the last point is possible.

So far the kids i showed it are not very impressed: “It takes long times to load”…
“it looks like windows”….

By: sonicbhoc

sonicbhoc — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:47:57 +0000

Awesome! I wouldn’t have thought of making a whole distro around making games, although I’ve seen a few that focus on playing them.