Re: [GD-General] RE: Hardware Survey
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From: Ray <ra...@gu...> - 2003-01-07 20:29:35
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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 |