Re: [GD-General] RE: Hardware Survey

[Ray <ra...@gu...>]

Here are some main reasons we have a port to Linux:
- One of our programmers prefers linux to windows
- There are a couple linux debugging tools that are really good like oprofile and valgrind
- It forces us to keep os-specific code contained
- approximately 30% of our users use Linux
- In general, supporting multiple clients helps debugging and code organization

- Ray Ratelis
ra...@gu...

Javier Arevalo wrote:
> ti...@ea... wrote:
> 
> 
>>That 40% for Linux servers makes it very clear that we absolutely have
>>to do a dedicated linux port, sigh <g>. At least we don't have to
>>worry about the client -- 0.69% -- very generous for you guys to even
>>bother with a client port, it clearly had no financial benefit.
> 
> 
> That's actually a good question. Daniel, what was the motivation behind
> building and supporting a Linux client?
> 
>   Javier Arevalo
>   Pyro Studios