today's leftovers
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It’s here! SUSE Rancher, SLE Micro and K3s now available with HPE Pointnext support | SUSE Communities
For twenty-five years, SUSE has collaborated and innovated with Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE), to create a seamless hardware and software experience. As part of this extended partnership we are proud to announce the availability of SUSE Rancher, K3s and SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLE Micro) with HPE Pointnext support bundled-in, starting October 3rd.
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The Gallery: Can FMV Games Make a Come-back?
The Gallery is a new FMV (Full Motion Video) game – a genre that we can also describe as interactive movies. It’s been a very long time since I played a FMV game. There were a lot of those back in the early 90s, as the CD-ROM was introduced on the market as a massive storage medium. For the kids out there who just came out of their mothers after 2000, in the early 90s most of the storage was limited to floppy disks (1.4 Megabyte per disk) and small hard drives (in the hundreds of Megabytes). Most games were designed to fit in those constraints, and with the sudden advent of the CD-ROM, having full motion video as part of a game become a reality. This was often used as an excuse to make “remasters” of games by slapping a couple of sloppy FMVs sequences on top of them. At that time everyone was easily impressed by full motion video in games: it was new, it was a technical feat (the hardware at the time was barely capable of decoding FMV decently), and it was relatively cheap to make and produce. There were quite a few games mostly centered around FMV themselves, interactive movies if you’d like. And then you had those that mixed actual games with a lot of FMV, such as Wing Commander 3 (featuring Mark Hamill from Star Wars fame) that had the biggest budget of any game ever made at that time, or Under the Killing Moon (a great adventure game with cutscenes and conversations mixing CGI and video) – to cite the best examples. Seeing Wing Commander 3 in 1994/1995 was like seeing the future. No game managed to make you feel like you were in actual movie until then.
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Oh yeah, you probably want to know if the game works as is on Steam? Actually, no. It won’t work if you use the regular Proton or even Experimental, at least at the time of writing: the videos won’t display, which makes the game unplayable. But GE-Proton (any recent version) will do the trick to make it work the way it’s supposed to.
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At Open Source Summit: Introducing Linux Foundation Europe [Ed: Paid-for puff piece about foreign lobby group of monopolies]