LinuxWorld: ‘Tis the Season to Frag with Linux

“This holiday season, it’s healthy to save a little quiet time
for yourself. To meditate on life’s simple pleasures. To quietly
and contemplatively cozy-up with a good FPS and frag everything
that moves.

“FPS, if you don’t speak video-game, stands for First Person
Shooter. You know, games like Quake or Unreal Tournament. If you
run Linux and don’t have the cash to buy UT2003 or Quake 3, you
might think this path to inner peace is not available to you. Fret
not, my dweebs. Aardappel (AKA Wouter van Oortmerssen) and his
friends are here to help you. So long as your video card supports
3D and OpenGL, that is.

“Cube is the name and killing is the game. Written with a single
codebase to support both Windows and Unix platforms through the
magic of open standards like OpenGL and SDL, the game is both free
as in beer and as in speech. Cube is not bogged down with a long
storyline or complex gameplay. According to the documentation, the
official storyline goes like this: ‘You kill stuff. The
end…'”

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