(10-02-2014, 06:39 AM)funriz Wrote: We could make an entertainment distro that is based off of Debian for the living room which allows users to play games, watch/stream youtube or movies.
I was thinking of calling it Linux Entertainment System.

Or GNU/Lesbian for short.

I was thinking "surely nobody will get behind this...", then I saw the joke. Well played.

(12-02-2014, 03:49 PM)ichiban Wrote: Well, then, let's make a game, or a distro, if an engine is out of our capabilities. All of my GL work has been with GLFW, GLEW, GLM, although I have *played* with SFML and SDL. Were we to write a game, I would assume that we'd use GL with a language in the C family - am I correct in this assumption? If so, then we need to decide on libs and frameworks. A lot of people like SDL, and I can understand why, but I'd prefer if we used GLFW.

Does this mean that we *aren't* making a distro, or are we simply discussing possibilities?

I'm quite fond of SFML myself. As bottomy proved when helping me with my (crappy) game, we clearly have people talented in that area. I personally think it allows a bit more room for creativity, involvement (even if you don't know the language you could contribute ideas, art and music).

A distro would be great, but I think it requires a lot more effort in the name of background reading on how all this stuff works. Maybe it's just me, but I'd have no clue where to even start on a distro, and to be honest I think at the moment I wouldn't personally have time to keep up with things enough to be an active part of development. Not to discredit a distro, go for it if we want, it'd make more sense than a game, but I think you'll see less involvement if you do. Maybe I'm wrong.