bsharitt writes "Mark Pazolli has ported Freecraft to Mac OS X, making this popular open source RTS game avalble on the three major platforms (it's been on Linux/*nix and Windows for a while). The complete download is here."
Three major platforms?
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lindsayt
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I know I'll get modded down, but then my karma is "excellent" so what've I got to lose?
The article states that Freecraft is now available on "the three major platforms" meaning of course MacOS, Windoze, and... linux, what else? This is slashdot, all right. I love linux - I'm a linux/solaris systems admin - but I'm sorry, when we're talking about games, it's *extremely* presumptious to casually refer to Linux along with Windoze and MacOS as one of "the three major platforms" - so far as I know, less than one percent of all commercial video games are launched on linux.
Just a small, perhaps pendantic complaint. Of course, I'm excited to see it now available on both of the major desktop systems, as well as one of the many server operating systems... go linux.
-- I did not design this game/I did not name the stakes/I just happen to like apples/And I am not afraid of snakes-AniD
Re:Three major platforms?
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g4dget
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You know, regarding the "moderation", I own several Macs myself and I like them. But the zealotry of Mac users is really annoying at times. Come on, guys, face the facts. Linux is a major desktop platform, with user numbers comparable to those of MacOS. And much of that wonderful software that makes MacOSX such a nice platform comes from that community.
Re:Three major platforms?
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g4dget
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Numerically, the number of Linux installations is comparable to that of MacOS, but the majority of those by far are server installations.
And how would you know? We can count Macintosh and Linux Internet servers and we can count Macintosh desktop systems (from Apple sales). But there is no way to count Linux desktop users. In fact, even many Linux servers are used for running desktop applications anyway, using Windows and Macintosh as displays. Linux is widely used at universities around the world for workstations. The Linux desktop has been adopted as the standard by Sun and HP. RedFlag will probably be used by millions of desktop users in China alone. Desktop oriented Linux distributions have a large marketshare in many countries. And Gnome and KDE are both easy-to-use, robust, modern desktops by any measure.
I just find this antagonism of the Macintosh community towards things Linux on the desktop fascinating. What have you got to prove? Linux isn't the enemy. The more Linux gets adopted on the desktop, the better for Apple because, unlike Microsoft, the Linux community doesn't hide behind proprietary APIs or patents.
Re:Let the flames begin?
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Triv
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hype, my friend. It's all 'bout hype. When a new game's touted as being the greatest game ever, they can get away with charging an arm and a leg for it. Personally, I just picked up a copy of Q3:a for ten bucks at Software Etc (and broodwar for a buck - my copy's a bit damaged). I'll wait till the publicity machine dies down a bit before I pick that one up. I'd rather spend 5 bucks on a used genesis/NES cart than spend 60 on a game that'll seriously stress my computer's specs.
Q3:A is a beautiful sight on my iMac DV - WC3 would run like all the characters have Palsy.:)
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I know I'll get modded down, but then my karma is "excellent" so what've I got to lose?
The article states that Freecraft is now available on "the three major platforms" meaning of course MacOS, Windoze, and... linux, what else? This is slashdot, all right. I love linux - I'm a linux/solaris systems admin - but I'm sorry, when we're talking about games, it's *extremely* presumptious to casually refer to Linux along with Windoze and MacOS as one of "the three major platforms" - so far as I know, less than one percent of all commercial video games are launched on linux.
Just a small, perhaps pendantic complaint. Of course, I'm excited to see it now available on both of the major desktop systems, as well as one of the many server operating systems... go linux.
I did not design this game/I did not name the stakes/I just happen to like apples/And I am not afraid of snakes-AniD
hype, my friend. It's all 'bout hype. When a new game's touted as being the greatest game ever, they can get away with charging an arm and a leg for it. Personally, I just picked up a copy of Q3:a for ten bucks at Software Etc (and broodwar for a buck - my copy's a bit damaged). I'll wait till the publicity machine dies down a bit before I pick that one up. I'd rather spend 5 bucks on a used genesis/NES cart than spend 60 on a game that'll seriously stress my computer's specs.
:)
Q3:A is a beautiful sight on my iMac DV - WC3 would run like all the characters have Palsy.
Triv