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Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway
binstream writes "To support Linux game development, Unigine Corp. announced a competition: it will give a free license for its Unigine engine to a seasoned team willing to work on a native Linux game. The company has been Linux-friendly from the very start; it released advanced GPU benchmarks (Heaven, Tropics, Sanctuary) for Linux before and is working on the OilRush strategy game that supports Linux as well."
Yell at the manufacturer of your card, not the linux devs. They can only do so much without the full details of how the card arcitecue is tsructured.
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We are now entering a transition period when the masses are starting to migrate to low-spec tablet computers from the PCs. The iPads, the new wave of Android tablets and such.. There is no need for the old PC-format packaged computer, the average joe consumer is quicky realizing that fact. The games that need gigs of memory, are CPU/GPU hungry, draw lot of power and require these 3D engines might not be such a hot genre to dive in and develop for right now.
That's what I thought. Nice advert for the company, I guess. It's going to boost Linux development by precisely one game, in 18 months time, maybe....
Official Wine support would certainly be a step in the right direction. I played WoW under Wine long ago and I got the impression that while it wasn't officially supported, it wasn't such an unsavory configuration that Blizzard would tell you to bugger off if you asked for support for it. I have no evidence to back this up but, I also got the impression that the desire to play WoW on linux gave the Wine project a very tangible flagship kind of "This Must Work" application. So, while I would love to see native linux clients, official Wine support would still be amazing and, possibly more beneficial to the linux community because of the side effects of having a better Wine.
For one most of the people that are paid have employers that want them to focus on specific things, not in detail but I doubt they'd could sit around making games on company time. The other thing is that it's much easier to envision a mod of an existing game than a new game, and on Linux you're mostly talking about a new game. There's few existing communities today. The open source model has proven much more effective when there is a clear rally flag, the way FreeCiv is a clone of civilization.
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Yes, the political and other agendas that go along with Linux essentially result in it fucking itself over in this respect.
So who REALLY do you expect to care that you can't run it on a reasonable obscure OS ... with a rather obscure (these days) processor? You might care, and maybe some guy in Europe ... but no one else does, so you're not really doing anything to help your argument in the minds of people who actually want to serve the most amount of people. You want to run some odd combination, you cut yourself off.
And to ignore what every major developer complains about and uses as their reason for not developing for Linux is just utterly ignorant. If you want people to develop for Linux you have to address their reason for not doing it, not sit around and tell them they are wrong.
Really? You're using an analog tuner to receive what? Analog was done away with last year in the US, I suspect that any other major country in the world is either already there or going that way soon as well, so its awesome that you can get your old TV card working, I don't think any Windows 7 user will cry that they can't get the card they bought 9 years ago to work ... since even with drivers its effectively useless. I guess you could hook it up to cable providers until they drop analog completely.
Actually, you have that backwards. If you can't make a reasonable stable ABI, you're doing it wrong. Its just a sign of a dev who either is incapable of thinking about the future or or don't care, either way, you won't find people who bother to follow you constantly doing anything useful. The fact that you think this way shows that you have no concept of how proper software development works. Its not even unique to software development, standardized interfaces are considered one of the major innovations that brought us to where we are today as far as production is concerned.
Do you think an assembly line would work if every engine, tire, bolt, or whatever had 'improvements to its interface' every day? Oh, today we get new bolts, gotta update the engines ... oh, the engines have a change that requires transmission modifications.
The interface doesn't have to stay the same forever, and indeed can't, but consistency and stability are a good thing, even if you don't understand why. Perhaps you should try living in a world where every electric company providers their own 'optimized' form of electricity, complete with different voltages and frequencies. How well would that work out?
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