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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Dead or not, Nexuiz Classic still installs and plays quite nicely. Not sure about the multiplayer online stuff though.
Great suggestions about Open Arena and Red Eclipse. A follow-up article to this one would be neat, I hope someone gathers some further open source games and writes about them.
I agree that it's tough to guarantee high quality anything, but in my experience you have a "bit budget" largely determined by the bandwidth of each participant. When I'm doing stuff online that doesn't require video, I use Mumble (you can read my article about it here: https://opensource.com/article/20/4/voice-chat-mumble) and maximize bit depth. Since I'm not "spending" any of my bit budget on video, the audio ends up being pretty good.
Your p2p theory is a good one, and worth testing, but I feel like the constraint of participant bandwidth will be a determining factor either way.