Games included in the latest release of live.linuX-gamers "Lite" LiveCD: armagetronad; astromenace; blobby; chromium-bsu; extremetuxracer; foobillard; frozen-bubble; hedgewars; lbreakout2; pingus; quadra; smc; teeworlds; worldofgoo-demo; xmoto.
Games included in the latest release of live.linuX-gamers "Big" LiveCD: all games included on the "Lite" LiveCD + btanks; fretsonfire; glest; maniadrive; neverball; neverputt; nexuiz; openlierox; sauerbraten; scorched3d; supertuxkart; torcs; tremulous; urbanterror; warsow; warzone; wesnoth; widelands; worldofpadman.
Performance overall was fine considering the restrictions placed on this LiveCD distribution (as mentioned above). My test machine, by no means a powerhouse but adequate, included a Intel Q6600 (2.4GHz) processor, 3GB of RAM and a NVIDIA 9600GT video card. All games were playable with a limited number of slowdowns/pauses. I did encounter fatal errors in a couple games but upon restarting the games I generally had no further problems. All tests were done using the Big ISO on a single sided Memorex DVD.
As a side note, I do run multiple virtual machines so I decided to boot the live.linuX-gamers LiveCD on my iMac using parallels. I do not recommend this as a way to run this LiveCD. There was much more of a performance slowdown than I expected and several of the games were unplayable. That being said it had to be done. How are you suppose to know the results of something until you try it!
live.linuX-gamers LiveCD is a very cool idea and implemented extremely well considering, you guessed it, the restrictions placed upon it. Your probably getting as tired of hearing that as I am saying it! That being said, it really is both the best and most limiting feature of this LiveCD (running entirely from your optical drive or USB key). If you keep these things in mind the live.linuX-gamers development team has done a fantastic job with this LiveCD. In the end, it's free, can be run on any PC with a optical drive or USB port, makes absolutely no changes to your current PC setup, and includes SuperTuxKart. How can you go wrong?
Until next time, keep it Open Source!