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A while ago on Slashdot, I read about a contest titled “We’re Linux”. The Linux Foundation has asked the community to develop their own “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC…” style commercials. I watched a handful of the other submissions, littered with cheesy jokes and poor production quality. However, the simplistic approach fared quite well. Here is the winner:

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An anonymous reader from the Macmod forum wrote in with this appealing hack: “This is one of the coolest mods I’ve seen all year. Mac Moder EdsJunk submitted this mod to our forums late

Thursday night. By cracking open a MacBook he was able to put a second monitor inside of the screen. The end result is sweet. The second monitor can make the Apple logo have any kind of background, like the clown fish, or the flurry screen saver.”

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Just because something is expensive, doesnt make it better. Also, some of the best things in life are FREE! Enter: Open Source Gaming. You might be saying to yourself “YEAH YEAH I’VE PLAYED TUXRACER IT BLOWS”… but lets suspend what most of us currently know about Open Source Games and have a look at the cream of the crop.

Open Arena

OpenArena is an free and open source first-person shooter computer game based heavily on the Quake III Arena style deathmatch. The OpenArena project was first started on August 19, 2005, the day after the id Tech 3 GPL source code release. - Wikipedia

This game is a Quake III Arena rewrite from the GPL’d source code. Its fast, fun, and looks quite modern compared to other FOSS FPS titles. Being a Quake junkie since 96′ I couldn’t leave this out of the list. The games familiar weapon set and high resolution textures make this game definately worth checking out. According to Wikipedia, scholars have used this engine as a platform for demonstrating and researching streaming graphics to and from a server, as well as communicating large data sets over a given network. Cool shit.

AssaultCube

AssaultCube

AssaultCube (formerly known as ActionCube) is a first-person shooter based upon the Cube engine. Although its main focus is online play, a single player mode exists which consists of computer-controlled bots. - Wikipedia

Available for all platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux) and playable on almost any graphics card, this game is a pure adrenaline. One of the great parts of this game are its many game modes. Borrowing a page or 2 from the Unreal series, they present the following modes:

• Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch
• One Shot One Kill and Team One Shot One Kill (Sniper rifle only)
• Last Swiss Standing (Knives and grenades only)
• Survivor and Team Survivor (Teams fight until opposing team is eliminated)
• Pistol Frenzy (Pistols, knives, and grenades only)
• Capture The Flag
• Keep The Flag and Team Keep The Flag
• Hunt The Flag

FlightGear

I’ve always been down with the flight simulation games, all the way back to F/A-18 Hornet and Janes Air Combat. This free sim allows you to pilot anything from a single engine cessna all the way up to a Boeing 747. I’ve been following this project for a while now, and can honestly say its one of the best open source projects I’ve ever seen. The level of realism in reference to each planes controls, physics, and characteristics is uncanny. I’m no pilot, but this game is the shit. Check it out: Wikipedia

Urban Terror

Urban Terror

Urban Terror, commonly abbreviated as UrT or UT is a total conversion mod of id Software’s first-person shooter Quake III Arena by Silicon Ice Development (now known as FrozenSand). It introduces many elements of the tactical shooter genre—team-driven gaming in more realistic environments. Wikipedia

I’ve watched this game grow from an unpopular Quake III Arena mod, into a full blown stand-alone Counter-Strike-Killer. This game is so much fun I cant even describe it. I’ve burned DAYS playing this game recently and have just re-discovered this classic reborn. Do yourself a favor and check this bad boy out. Its available for Mac, Linux and Windows as a stand-alone game. No Quake III Arena needed!

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