Lorenzo Prince wrote:
Thus spake Thomas:And, if your fav Win games are not available on Linux then ask the game authors for a Linux version. If there is no demand for games to run on Linux then there will be none written. Much of games & entertainment is business, business is to make money, if the company can't justify a business plan for a Linux version it won't happen. Writing a game takes a LOT of work. Open source or closed source, if the game author thinks that there will only be a small audience on a particular OS then the phrase "why bother" comes to mind.
# personal experience is, that it takes a lot more time to get a game work # with linux. There is just a small number of native linux games and an # even smaller number of good native linux games that can compare to # modern games that were written for platforms like MS.
Here I see an ongoing problem that only seems to be getting worse. I see many people complaining that "Linux doesn't have games" but I don't see many people writing new games for Linux. Or people will complane that "the games on Linux aren't as good as those on Windows/OtherOS." But no one is taking the existing games and making them better. Isn't this the point of Open Source? If it isn't there, create it. If it doesn't do what you want, fix it so it does. Or if you can't do that, by all means submit bug reports and/or feature requests.
PRINCE
UT2003 has a Linux installer on disk 3, wooohooo! Runs great on FC1 (but I need a better computer).
Mike
