silverflux 0.6.0 review

silverflux allows you to easily install and manage commercial games on your GNU/Linux system

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 29K Developer: Michael S. Gilbert

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silverflux allows you to easily install and manage commercial games on your GNU/Linux system. Only games with available GNU/Linux native binaries are supported at this time, but extensions for running games under wine/cedega/dosbox are planned.

silverflux automagically installs, downloads patches, and configures games without any required user intervention. silverflux project is a truely simplified game management system.

The intended audience for this software includes desktop as well as advanced end users.

silverflux was created to fill in the last linux gaming deficiency; the interface between the user and the system. silverflux provides the glue that prevents the user from fumbling with ill-concieved and clumsy game installers (both windows and linux native).

Instead an advanced user figures out how an optimal installation works then creates an automated script; thus simplifying the installation process for everyone. This is especially important for enabling games on wine where config files often need to be tweaked manually. everyone benefits.

Installation:

1. extract the archive
$ tar zxvf silverflux-0.6.0.tar.gz
2. add silverflux binaries to your path (this is a required step). you will want to add this path to the end of your ~/.bashrc file so you won't have to type this all the time.
$ PATH="$PATH:$PWD/silverflux-0.6.0/bin"
3. start the gui
$ silverflux-gui

What's New in This Release:
A lot of work has been done on code clean-up.
Various important features have been finalized.
A simple Python-based GUI interface is now available.