Gaming on ubuntu

I've spent some time enabling my ATI Mobility Radeon X700 on my Acer 1694WLMi Laptop. It gave me some headaches, there was some problem with the official ATI, driver, fglrx, and mesa didn't want to go away. After some tries, I've decided to reinstall everything, xserver and fglrx, with the kernel restrictive modules. After that, I've just "sudo moddep -a" and rebooted. All went smooth, and I can now see:

tiagoboldt@Niath:~$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X700 Generic
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6011 (8.28.8)

This means that my graphic card was already recognized and was ready to be user. So, what is a graphic card used for? GAMES, I've just installed the recently released second life client, savage for linux and a couple of games from the repositories, like Xmoto or Tremulous.

Second life runs really good, but I don't see any point in playing that.. It can be freely downloaded here.
As for Savage, it's total fun, just spent the evening playing it. Worth a try!

Linux powered PC's

I've recently found a computer store, with linux powered only computers on sale. It's System76 and it sells all of it's desktops and laptops with the latest version of Ubuntu pre-installed. They are also selling servers with ubuntu 6.06, the long term support version of ubuntu installed. The price gets lower without the usual windows installation, and all the system is fully linux supported. They've got some special beauty, maybe some kind of Apples' macmini imitation, the koala mini. All of the computers are fully customizable, from the cpu, to monitor.