Mayhap some rephrasal is in order. a) I'm very happy to see more games out on Linux. b) I can understand how most games are easier to port to i386. but: It really rubs me wrong to hear the folks selling/distributing the stuff saying it's available for Linux when it's only available for i386 (insert RedHat at will) Linux. Games aren't quite the only example of this either, I can think of a certain IDE (coughCodeWarriorcough) which I'm quite used to not being available for Linux on a PPC (this seems really silly, it's available for Macintosh)
My word this scares me. More and more we get news items about a new piece of software for Linux. I think, "Great! I always wanted to play/use/try that!" I go to the site to be greeted by a wonderful selection of *.i386* files. Imagine my joy, I can run it on the 486 I use as a router, lest not my G3.
I guess this gripe can also go out to some folks who distribute source, but hardcode gcc flags to optimize to 486. Annonying this is, humm?
Glad to see some more Linux games though. It never hurts to have other folks supporting a new market for ya.
I think TNT's view of things was a good introduction to the history between the two (Jobs and Gates). I mainly grinned and nodded at most of the factual content (and picked up a few things that might be true, who's to know?). But to their real target, people like my father who just don't touch these silly computer things, it was well done. It shows just a bit of what has gone on behind it all, but keeps their interest wonderfully. After he's seen it, I might just be able to explain to my father just what the Open Source movement could mean in the whole picture.
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Mayhap some rephrasal is in order.
a) I'm very happy to see more games out on Linux.
b) I can understand how most games are easier to port to i386.
but: It really rubs me wrong to hear the folks selling/distributing the stuff saying it's available for Linux when it's only available for i386 (insert RedHat at will) Linux. Games aren't quite the only example of this either, I can think of a certain IDE (coughCodeWarriorcough) which I'm quite used to not being available for Linux on a PPC (this seems really silly, it's available for Macintosh)
Okay, enough griping, let's code.
My word this scares me. More and more we get news items about a new piece of software for Linux. I think, "Great! I always wanted to play/use/try that!" I go to the site to be greeted by a wonderful selection of *.i386* files. Imagine my joy, I can run it on the 486 I use as a router, lest not my G3.
I guess this gripe can also go out to some folks who distribute source, but hardcode gcc flags to optimize to 486. Annonying this is, humm?
Glad to see some more Linux games though. It never hurts to have other folks supporting a new market for ya.
I think TNT's view of things was a good introduction to the history between the two (Jobs and Gates). I mainly grinned and nodded at most of the factual content (and picked up a few things that might be true, who's to know?). But to their real target, people like my father who just don't touch these silly computer things, it was well done. It shows just a bit of what has gone on behind it all, but keeps their interest wonderfully. After he's seen it, I might just be able to explain to my father just what the Open Source movement could mean in the whole picture.