This is definitely going to be good fun.<p>Next in series:<p>- Twitch manages a portfolio<p>- Twitch defuses a bomb<p>- Twitch controls air traffic<p>- Twitch performs a heart surgery
The code currently given in the stream is `while [ "$(date)" != "Sat Oct 31 16:00:00 EDT 2015" ]; do \ sleep 1; done` ... so I hope the process wakes up on the correct millisecond.
The chat on the twitch page is live already and well worth looking at. They're currently arguing over which desktop environment to use. Some people just want to install FreeBSD instead.<p><a href="http://www.twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux" rel="nofollow">http://www.twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux</a><p>Click the arrow in the top right if you don't see the chat.
This is brilliant - I imagine they'll have to hope the incessant "rm -rf *" commands don't get spammed, if they are running under root.<p>Looking forward to it.
Any idea how to play this on Fedora without flash? I've tried gnome-twitch that crashes a LOT and now trying to use livestreamer-twitch-gui which is not able to find the stream.<p>livestreamer <a href="http://www.twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux" rel="nofollow">http://www.twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux</a> says it cannot find any streams on this URL.
I was thinking, "won't Twitch ban this for not being a game?". But the I realized that this itself is a game.<p>I wonder what Twitch's policy on meta-gaming is.
Is there a minimum 'vote' threshold, or if I'm the only person connected at a certain point in time, do I get free - albeit slow and insanely frustrating - control of the 'machine'?
Looks like the channel was closed, apparently "due to terms of service violations". Anyone else get the same error message?<p>I wonder if this is because the content streamed is not deemed to be video game related?
If you want an easy to understand video on Installing Arch Linux in 15 minutes: <a href="https://youtu.be/_fBIeKQSiAc" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/_fBIeKQSiAc</a>
Definitely interesting to see these twitch events. For those curious Twitch has a IRC backend for the chatrooms, so if you can code an IRC bot, you can easily allow twitch users to automate many interesting things.
Hmm, `system_reset` is an available command. Is that a good idea if people just spam it randomly? Because they will...<p>Perhaps detecting when the machine is powered off and automatically turning it on is more effective.
If they manage to install Arch Linux with an equal amount of people which were playing Twitch plays Pokémon, I will post a video of me eating my sandals.