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Circular reasoningCircular reasoningPosted Jul 26, 2006 2:58 UTC (Wed) by xanni (subscriber, #361)In reply to: Circular reasoning by NAR Parent article: What AMD's ATI acquisition means for Linux (and Macs) (Linux-Watch)
Why would you want your game to run on multiple Linux distros? Surely it's easier to make a "Live-CD" with whatever kernel and libraries the game needs on it and run the game as process 1.
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Circular reasoning Posted Jul 26, 2006 5:31 UTC (Wed) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] What happens when the game gets patched?
Circular reasoning Posted Jul 26, 2006 5:32 UTC (Wed) by beoba (guest, #16942) [Link] Woops, forgot to mention this too:
Say you have a computer which uses the successor to PCIe, and your game CD has a kernel that does not have support for this successor.
Saved games Posted Jul 26, 2006 8:44 UTC (Wed) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link] I've been thinking along these lines, but it leaves the problem of where to store saved games. The best I can think of is to take a leaf from Sony and require people to buy a USB stick for the purpose.
Then there's the speed issue: one reason many games install to disk is to speed up access to the game files.
If a live-CD tried to copy its files to disk it has a significant risk of breaking the installed system.
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