Linux Games FTW | LAS | s21e02

Posted on: March 25, 2012

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Linux Games FTW | LAS | s21e02

We’re hosting an action LAN party and we frag through our favorite Linux games! Has Linux won the gaming crown? Or will our LAN party blow up in our face? Tune in to find out!

Plus: Matt stops by with a howto that’ll show you how to control Pulse Audio like a boss! And we’ll ask, has Banshee jumped the shark? We debate.

And so much more!

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Pavucontrol: The best way to utilize PulseAudio without any frustration, running pavucontrol will allow you to use software like Jitsi, Empathy or Skype. To install pavucontrol, simply run
sudo apt-get install pavucontrol from a terminal window.

Now once I installed it on the Wild Dog PC from System76.com, I was immediately able to run the software, then jump over to my Jitsi installation, place a call to Chris and once there, toggle over to the Recording tab of the pavucontrol user interface. Now since I had a USB headset plugged in, I needed PulseAudio to make sure that Jitsi remembered that I wanted to use the headset and not the soundcard for my microphone needs. With the default volume controls under Ubuntu, this isn’t possible as setting up the input device doesn’t work on a per-application basis the way that pavucontrol does.

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  • http://profiles.google.com/bwat47 Brandon Watkins

    @ Chris, the gnome classic mode in ubuntu 12.04 is all GT3. Its basically the official gnome-fallback session (Which is the gnome panel ported to GTK3), and ubuntu has added indicator support and polished it up.

  • boofhoo

    ogg rss feed typo (hhttp)

  • red eclipse player

    no Red Eclipse in show notes :(

  • Dale Moore

    Great show guys. I like the segments with Matt, keep up the good work

  • Bobby Taylor

    Chris - that’s because your so handsome 
    Bryan – your welcome
    haha 

  • Kabamaru Igano

    Great job guys

  • Mohan

    Liking those Matt segments! :-)

  • Guest

    Call it TechFap!

  • Adibis

    Really? Glossy screen and chicklet keyboard? For a dedicated Linux laptop? Where most people code and type a lot?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thomas-Wright/1002681831 Thomas Wright

    In regards to “if” these Kickstarter game projects will ship… (I work for Activision so I know a little about this).  Usually, when a game gets “cancelled”, it’s the publisher doing the canceling.  When the publisher pulls money, there is no way for the game company to continue production.  The projects funded by Kickstarter have NO publisher!  So they can’t be cancelled by the bean counters.  Double Fine is a known entity and if someone like Tim Schafer says he’s going to make a game.. it’s as good as made.  Now that doesn’t mean the game will be good… but I have faith in those guys.

  • Anonymous

    Wait… Wait… Really? I mean. REALLY?

    -Chris

  • Eba Rogin

    Glad to come here, Monday night, and see only a handful of comments, haters be gone!

  • jgm

     But publishers may be canceling the game because it’s over-budget and behind schedule, the developers may have failed to be able to achieve certain intended features, etc. Duke Nukem Forever would still have been a trainwreck with no publisher. :-) There’s certainly a chance the Kickstarter funds could run out and the game be nowhere close to completion, which would mean the game wouldn’t be able to ship regardless of not having a publisher.

  • Linux

    More like “Viewers be gone”

    Bryans rabid obtuse hate-fest seems to have driven off the smarter and more educated part of the audience and left a few gamer kids who don’t know any better.  Was waiting to see if Bryan had the nads to own up to his disgusting tantrum…  Guess Not.
    Ciao LAS

  • Guest

    There is a good opensource alternative for Ventrilo and TeamSpeak called Mumble.
    http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

  • Austin

     Yeah, that’s not the case. I think Bryan was partially wrong, but RMS even more so. It’s an opinion is all, and we can all move past this sort of thing.

  • https://cloud.barrenfrozenwasteland.com/ Mark Johnson

    Banshee adding DVD playback is like Amarok adding the “mood bar”

  • Munro

    Does Dylan hate freedom? 

    Great show. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tyler-Burns/612343918 Tyler Burns

    I pretty sure CCP which produces EVE Online is based in Iceland

  • James

    Nice to see Open vswitch mentioned. Citrix XenServer, based on open source xen, has had Open vswitch since version 5.6 FP1 (optional feature) and is the default in the latest versions (6.0.0/6.0.2).