Sounds great. (but a lot of ideas do these days.. :|) <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 2, 2008 12:58 AM, John Richard Moser <<a href="mailto:nigelenki@comcast.net">nigelenki@comcast.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> How far can Ubuntu's hardware autoconfiguration go? How far does 3D support work in Linux now? Joysticks/mice/etc? One fascinating idea I've had for a while was to turn a PC into a gaming console. I hear a lot of "Windows runs my games" and "I have a high-end gaming PC" these days. Why not burn a game onto a DVD or CD, with Ubuntu, with the configuration set up so it boots and finds a USB drive or hard drive and lets you pick where to save config/games to? This is just an off-the-cuff thought, but what about a release LiveCD that really does boot up Nexuiz or something on boot, and shut it down when you exit? Fast shutdown: remount all r/w drives as read-only, run sync, wait 3 seconds, then flat out halt the system. What about a boot menu that picks the game (read /proc/cmdline) for you? No Gnome, no Fluxbox, no stripped UI. Just load up X, have it use the game as the WM. During boot, list drives found (list "initialized drives" with a specific config file on them first) that may have configuration data (i.e. wireless networks, save games, hardware settings...). Allow reconfiguration, including picking a wifi network, or such. Aside from that, pretty much "Pick profile. Configure? [No] Launching game..." Feasible? Interesting? Challenging? Likely to expose new and interesting design considerations for general desktop OSes? Any thoughts or comments at all? -- Bring back the Firefox plushy! <a href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/Is_the_Firefox_plush_gone_for_good" target="_blank">http://digg.com/linux_unix/Is_the_Firefox_plush_gone_for_good</a> <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322367" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322367</a> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>