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LinuxMCE returns
by Grant Robertson Mar 27th 2007 at 3:00PM
After days of waiting (for us) and work behind the scenes (for them), the Linux Media Center Edition or LinuxMCE project has turned on the pilot light again. The project had been impossible to download after a recent (and unexpected) Digg. If you're anxious to get your hands on LinuxMCE, which is a fork of the Pluto Home project designed to run on off-the-shelf hardware, you can grab the Install CD via Bittorrent, and the installer package for Ubuntu 6.10 from the LinuxMCE project site. You'll need both for a complete installation.
More about LinuxMCE in our previous post, "LinuxMCE looks hot"
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
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radryan said 5:33PM on 3-27-2007
Anyone know of any way to get this running under 64-bit ubuntu, or is it a definate no-go?
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Mythor said 7:39PM on 3-27-2007
Most people can't get it to work properly at all, regardless of their system, radryan.
I'm sure the issues will get ironed out eventually, but calling this a 1.0 release is very misleading - it's an Alpha release, so be prepared for it to not work and don't install it on a critically important machine...
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