Im looking for a good freeware/open source/GNU GPL software that can help me record at least 5 minutes of game play with audio. As a secondary request a nice desktop capture option would be nice to for building tutorials on using programs or installing things for family and friends.

There are tons of them out there. First one that came up in a Google search - Taksi:
http://taksi.sourceforge.net/

Yes, but its not open source/GPL.

True but it is freeware last I checked.

Taksi doesn't capture audio.

hows the quality on X-Fire's captures? Id love FRAPS but cant spare the cash for something that would be "just for fun"

And that works... thank you, perfect and it uploads them for me to a linkable source or i can encode the raw video myself or edit the locally stored files...