Grant Gross reports, in a NewsForge article, on a growing trend of using Linux as the embedded operating system within gaming machines. Gross writes . . .

“Linux is starting to show up on some gaming machines, but they're not coming to your desktop. While Linux is still playing catch-up to Windows in the desktop gaming market, a couple of companies are using Linux with games you'd see in a bar or on a casino floor.”

“Since last fall, the Illinois-based Incredible Technologies, makers of the popular Golden Tee and other bar games, has been using Linux to create a new hardware platform for its games.”

“Working with Linux/Unix company Caldera, Incredible Technologies plans to release its new Arcade/Coin-op machines this fall. The specialized Linux machines are being created using Caldera's eDesktop 3.1 with KDE 2.1 . . . “

” . . . In slightly different twist on Linux gaming, video gambling device maker Shuffle Master is also using Linux, in this case Red Hat, to be part of its Shuffle Master Operating System for video slots, video poker, and other games . . . “

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