[NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting (2006/05/09): Gaming on GNU/Linux

Start: 2006/05/09 - 7:30pm End: 2006/05/09 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Description: Sometimes it seems like as a community we take ourselves too seriously. We run serious applications and our most important economic demographic is large corporations with men in very expensive suits. Maybe the reason there aren't many Linux based home computers is that we're all not playing enough games. Stephen Cilley and Paul Peterson present gaming in GNU/Linux. They will discussing several modern (and not so modern) games and bitch about *ahem* ... discuss the difficulty involved in their use. They will present the modern alternatives in video cards, processors, and do their best to avoid the holy war while discussing distribution and windows managers. They will demonstrate the use and futility of win32 API implementations in Linux along with native free games and native non-free games. You might learn something, you might not, but you will have fun. We are always looking for speakers, so if you or anyone you know would like to give a presentation to a group of friendly nerds please send an email to speakers(a)nblug.org . -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org