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Running Applications Part IV
Games in Fedora
As with many other Linux distributions, Fedora offers an extensive set of games. Table 23-3 lists
some of the games that are included in Fedora 8.
TABLE 23-3
Games from Fedora
Game Description
Beneath a Steel Sky (beneath-a-steel-sky) A popular commercial science fiction adventure game from the
early 1990s, set in a repulsive, futuristic city.
BSD Games (bsd-games) Text-based card games and adventure games dating back to early
UNIX systems of the 1970s and run from the shell.
BZFlag (bzflag) 3D multiplayer tank battle game.
Celestia (celestia) OpenGL real-time visual space simulation. (Available under the
Other menu.)
Flight Gear (FlightGear) Flight simulator game.
FooBilliard (foobilliard) OpenGL billiard game.
Freeciv (freeciv) The Freeciv multiplayer strategy game.
Freedoom (freedoom) Data files for Doom game engines. (Use with prboom package,
which provides an open source port of the Doom engine.)
Freedroid (freedroid) Clone of the C64 game Paradroid.
Freedroid RPG (freedroidrpg) Freedroid theme for role playing game with Tux as hero.
GL-117 (gl-117) Action flight simulator.
Chess (gnuchess) The GNU chess program. Used with the xboard package to
provide a graphical chess game.
Lacewing (lacewing) Asteroid game sporting different types of ships.
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