games spin

[Rahul Sundaram]

Jon Ciesla wrote:
>> Hans de Goede wrote:
>>
>>> Do we want to put autodownloader using games on the spin? Sofar I
>>> deliberately didn't put any on there.
>> Is there any reason not to? I can see some reasons why but I would like
>> to hear your thoughts on that. One reason why I think we should do that
>> is because it is useful to demo some of the nice games in Linux. As far
>> as licensing is concerned, IMO gaming content restrictions can be a bit
>> more than gaming engines due to the artistic values in the former though
>> I definitely prefer less restrictions.
>>
>> In most conferences these days, they have bandwidth that pulling in game
>> content just before the demo is not a problem and doing such a demo for
>> a upcoming local FOSS conference is of one my main motivations behind
>> working on this. Btw, I haven't include the regular GNOME games packages
>> in the kickstart file. Do we want to do that?
> 
> If I go to try out systems at Be$tBuy, and I want to play games to test
> the video cards, I can't play the autodownload games because there's not
> net connection.  So why bother?

We could bother because there are other instances where it is useful and 
I did give one example of that above. For testing the video card there 
are several other games available in the spin.

Rahul