humans-enabled.com — Over the next 1 to 3 years, and beyond, we are set to see the glory of the GNU/Linux operating system take hold as the prominently used end user platform for computers everywhere. This is why it makes a whole bunch of sense for you to port your games to GNU/Linux. But don't take my word for it, checkout the links and information below...
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Closed AccountJan 13, 2009
Not a bad idea but since so many of us use ATi now (4850, 4870). OpenGL support is garbage, its either broken or totally inferior to Nvidia's extensions and support. ATi knows D3D and thats about it.
srg13Jan 13, 2009
With a bit of careful planning from the start, you can write a game that runs on Windows, Mac OS and Linux, the Xbox 360, and PS3 with little extra cost. Therefore it makes a lot of sense to develop them in a cross platform way, because then they have a wider marketshare...
retepnamenotsJan 13, 2009
Sorry, I meant the Source engine. =)Port that to Linux and you'll get HL2 and all it's derivatives also running natively on the OS.
freesfJan 14, 2009
They won't invest on GNU/Linux, the GNU/Linux users don't want to pay for the OS, they won't pay for games
bicepJan 14, 2009Submitter
I am willing to pay for software, I've bought the games Prey, Oh Frankie, and Savage2 online so far.Checkout some of my videos that show the games I bought playing on my Dell Ubuntu machine:<a class="user" href="http://www.humans-enabled.com/2008/11/dell-inspiron-530n-nvidia-9400gt-ubuntu.html">http://www.humans-enabled.com/2008/11/dell-inspiro ...</a>What I don't believe in(like many GNU/Linux users) is paying a company to give me a crappy product and then to use it's monopoly position to destroy standards and push out competition. STOP THE TAX!!!
rowjimmyJan 14, 2009
a gui-friendly linux distro like ubuntu or opensuse is GREAT for "grandma" users who just want to use internet, mail, and word processing. of course the system would have to be set up for them, but could such users install windows or osx? hell no. it is also great for developers/power users. it only really fails with mid-level users (who usually tend to be gamers) - they want to use their computer for various tasks, but are very accustomed to the windows interface and aren't interested in taking the time to learn a different (and possibly better) way of doing things.
lingnoiJan 16, 2009
Yes however you still have to run it against wine.Compiling with winelib will:- sort out some of the problems people might have originally running your win32 app through wine in the first place just you'll get errors and have to change your source.- give you a real ELF binary which may give you speed improvements<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkab ...</a>At the end of the day you're still going to have to type wine binary.exe.so
bicepFeb 14, 2009Submitter
Rah rah!!!<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/Blog_of_Helios_World_of_Goo_for_Linux">http://digg.com/linux_unix/Blog_of_Helios_World_of ...</a>