日前，Mandriva Linux公司宣布，他们即将发布最新的Mandriva Linux2007版本，在该版本中他们将附带Transgaming公司的的Cedega引擎，从而保证可以在Linux上玩上大多数的Windows游戏。
大家对Transgaming公司也许还不是很熟悉，但是他们已经在WINE的后续基础上做了许多有益的工作，他们的目的就是为了能够使得Linux桌面用户可以更好的玩上Linux游戏。
经过几年的努力，Transgaming公司已经在技术上有所突破，基本上的Windows游戏都可以在Linux上玩了，理论上来说，只要客户有需要，都可用做到，而且非常好。目前Transgaming对以下游戏提供支持：战地2、摩兽世界、文明4、半条命2等。
The popular distribution formerly known as Mandrake, and with no Purple Rain to be seen, will include in its next 2007 release Transgaming’s Cedega engine to play mainstream Windows gaming titles out of the box.
For those not familiar with Transgaming the company has worked for years on a WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) derivative to empower Linux users to run Windows games natively on the Linux desktop.
While over the years the success of Transgaming’s technologies have at times been a hit and miss affair — largely dependent on the games you try to play — popular mainstream titles have usually been supported quite well, literally because that’s where the most work is focused for demand.
Currently Transgaming boasts support for titles including Battlefield 2, World of Warcraft, Civilization IV, Guild Wars and the essential Half-Life 2, among other top rated Windows games.
Mandriva hopes the inclusion of Cedega in the install package will help push Linux as a desktop to the very market that usually wouldn’t give it a second look — the gamers. Or, perhaps more accurately, the mainstream gamers as Linux has had its fair share of Linux based games over the years, but nothing that would come close to mainstream Windows titles.
To tempt users of the possibilities a copy of FlatOut, a racing and smash-em-up game, will also be bundled for use with the included Cedega engine.
Also present in the next version of Mandriva Linux will be the latest Gnome 2.16, KDE 3.5.4, and the OpenGL accelerated 3D desktop XGL, marking yet another distribution making the move to include the Linux answer to Vista’s swank eye-candy and snazzy effects.
The ‘gaming-enabled’ edition of Mandriva 2007 bundling Cedega is scheduled to launch on October 2nd.
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