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Free Damn Small Linux Games - Part 1

Many people find that Damn Small Linux is an excellent tool for mastering Linux commands and running the Linux operating system. But what if you have no interest in becoming a computer nerd; can this software still be useful to regular people? The answer is a resounding yes. You can use this tiny operating system whether or not you want to learn the sometimes gruesome details of operating systems. This article presents several free games that are immediately available once you have downloaded and installed Damn Small Linux.

To access these games either click on the DSL button in the lower-left hand corner or on the Apps icon toward the top of the screen. Then open the Games: there are eleven; Canfield, Freecell, Golf, Mastermind, Minesweeper, Pegged, Slide_Puzzle, Solitaire, Taipei, Thornq, and Xtris and Taiedit which is not a game, but a game editor. This article looks at the first six games; a companion article examines the rest of them. As with any gaming systems, be careful not to get addicted.

Canfield is a relatively complicated single-deck solitaire card game. If you are not familiar with this game you'll have to go to a source such as Google to find out how to play it. There is no help function. And sometimes the cards move fast, too fast to learn what is happening if you don't know the game.

Freecell is a relatively complicated single-deck solitaire card game. I think that it's easier to win than Canfield but maybe that's because I am an ex-semi-Freecell-addict. It's a lot easier to get addicted to the Window's version of Freecell because it includes a seed number that lets you replay the same game. There is no such seed number in this version of Freecell.

In spite of its name, Golf is yet another card game one that is fairly well known. For more information about this game access http://www.delorie.com/store/ace/docs/golf.html.

Mastermind is a game in which you use a mouse to drag colors from the palette (on the left) to the empty cells in the guess row. When the four cells in the guess row are full, right-click on the right of the screen to see how you did. There will be one black peg for each cell that is the correct color, and one white for a color that is not in the correct sequence. Keep going and sooner or later you can figure out all the colors in the row. If that's your thing.

Some people will remember Minesweeper from the days of Windows 3.1. The goal is to clear a field of mines by clicking on a square that has no mines and right-clicking on a mined square to deactivate it. The screen indicates how many mines are adjacent to a square that has been deactivated or clicked on. One false move and you lose. When you start the game you can choose from four levels by enter 1 (the easiest), 2, 3, or 4. I vaguely recall that Windows 3.1 gave me additional options, but still Damn Small Linux's Minesweeper is a good time waster.

Pegged is a field of thirty penguins and thirty-one spaces. Initially one space is empty. A move consists of one Penguin jumping over another generating an additional empty space. You win if at the end of the game there is a single penguin. You really win if the solitary penguin is in the center square. Some would say that you really, really win if you close the Games menu and get back to work.

About the Author

Levi Reiss has authored or co-authored ten books on computers and the Internet. He loves the occasional glass of wine as exemplified by his wine websites including www.theworldwidewine.com. He teaches Linux and Windows operating systems plus other computer courses at an Ontario French-language community college. Visit his new website http://www.linux4windows.com which enables you to download and run Damn Small Linux on even outdated Windows computers.

Ok, how many wore pegged skirts and cardigans buttoned down the back?

I was the happiest kid in the world when I got my first pegged skirt. Remember if the pleat wasn't high enough or the skirt short enough (skirts must come to the middle of the knee or touch the floor when you kneeled) You would end up walking like a penguin. We used to get checked by the V.P. of the school and soon as he checked us would go to the bathroom and roll the skirt up at the waist and safety pin them so they wouldn't unroll as we walked. We were sooooo bad we were the girls mothers didn't want you to associate with. I remember all of wearing low heels we bought with lunch money at a thrift store with socks with lace around the part you folded down. Hey we were sooooo cool.
We wore a version of the ones you wore and they were popular in the fifties and til about '62
Have to add one more thing, all the guys wore jeans and T-shirts and if they smoked they folded them into the arm or carried them in their sock. Trying to be James Dean or Tab Hunter.

Yes I remember the ban-lon sweaters buttoned at the back and we called the skirts straight cut with a pleat in the back. Mine was blackwatch plaid and my mom made it . I loved the little lace collars we wore with a crystal pendant on a chain necklace. Actually when I think back , we all looked like clones. Remember the kiss curls in front of our ears with a bobby pin across it . My mom used to tell me to take it out before I went to school but I said it was the style and everyone did it. Those words have come back to haunt me.

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