4MLinux Game Edition 10.0 / 10.1 Beta is released, available for download

4MLinux Game Edition 10.0 / 10.1 Beta is released, available for download

4MLinux Game Edition 10.0 / 10.1 Beta is released, available for download

4MLinux Game Edition is an open source distribution of Linux that provides users with a nice collection of games. It is a minimalistic operating system based on the main edition of the 4MLinux project.

What's New in version 10.1 Beta
  • This is an updated version using 4MLinux 10.1 as the core system. The 4MLinux collection includes, among other things, the following items: classic "shoot'em up" games (Abuse, Doom, Freedoom, Heretic, Hexen, Quake I, and Quake II), Liero (a realtime "Worms-like" game), Lincity (a construction and management simulation game), space shooters (XGalaga, Kobo Deluxe), Extreme Tux Racer (3D game), DOSBox 0.74 (with some Freeware DOS games), and a set of small games using Qt. GNU Chess 6.1.2 with WinBoard 4.8.0, GNU Go 3.8, and Michael Speck's LGames are also available.

Default applications

Default applications include the QupZilla and Mozilla Firefox web browsers, Mozilla Thunderbird email client, SeaMonkey all-in-one Internet suite, MPlayer and SMPlayer video players, XPaint digital painting software, and Wine for running Windows apps.

Among the preinstalled games, we can mention LinCity, Zblast, Rocks, WinBoard, Mahjongg, Solitaire, Koules, Galaga, Circus, Liero, Kobo, FZPong, LTris, Quake 1 & 2, Hexen, FreeDoom, Heretic, Abuse, Doom, LMarbles, LPairs, Barrage, LGeneral, as well as LBreakout 1 & 2.

When booting the live environment, users will be asked to enter a password for the root account. After that, you have to use the username root and the password that you’ve chosen in order to login. Once logged in, you have to type the startx command, hitting the Enter key after it, to start the graphical desktop.

This edition looks identical with other 4MLinux flavors. The desktop environment is comprised by the same panel and dock (application launcher), as well as the system monitoring widget powered by Conky.

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