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Linux 3.17 Kernel Released With Xbox One Controller Support
An anonymous reader writes The Linux 3.17 kernel was officially released today. Linux 3.17 presents a number of new features that include working open-source AMD Hawaii GPU support, an Xbox One controller driver, free-fall support for Toshiba laptops, numerous ARM updates, and other changes.
It doesn't, you can load it as a module.
Why does a driver for a game controller need to be incorporated into the kernel?
Because it is easier for somebody else to maintain that way, the issue is that the Linux kernel does not have a stable binary interface so you cannot just provide a driver and expect it to continue working over time. When the kernel ABI is updated any changes to it that any driver depends on needs to be reflected in every one of those drivers.
The alternative is that every driver is hosted in its own repo somewhere else and kernel maintainers then have to pull all those drivers from the various repos and make sure they all compile when a change is made to the ABI. But the current state leads to a very bloated kernel.
No games to play???
http://store.steampowered.com/...
998 games and counting
including...
Xcom Enemy Unknown
Wasteland 2
Portal 2
Counter Strike
Left 4 Dead 2
DOTA 2
TF2
Garys Mod
Half Life 2
Civ 5
Borderlands 2
Witcher 2
System Shock 2
Killing Floor
How many games does a platform have to have so it doesnt have "no games to play" ?
World of... oh what was the name of that game... it's on the tip of my tongue....
Goo?
How many games does a platform have to have so it doesn't have "no games to play" ?
The PS3 was (and sometimes still is) widely ridiculed in gaming circles for having "no games", despite a launch lineup of 6-23 games (6JP/14US/23EU) and a current library of 796 retail games.
As no similar critiques were lobbed against the Xb360 (1,125) or Wii (1,222), we can conclude that the number of games necessary is somewhere in the range of 800-1100, most likely 1000.
However, your link only shows 702 games for me. Also, the above counts are of retail releases, which excludes a lot of the small indie stuff that makes up most of that list. And so we can conclude that Linux has "no games", and will continue to have "no games" for quite some time.