Free Games

We are talking about Linux and open source software, so, of course, there are free game choices. Which games you might be interested in depends on what you like. A lot of free games are available on your Mandrake or Fedora install disks. Those games include the KDE and GNOME game collections. Popular open source games also have been around for quite some time, including FreeCiv and Tux Racer. More ambitious projects have been started for large-scale first-person shooter games and massive multiplayer online games.

Both the GNOME Games collection and KDE Games consist of small desktop games such as card games, puzzle games, and arcade games. These are the games you play when you need something to do, when you are waiting for something ...

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