RE: [GD-General] RE: Hardware Survey

[Daniel V. <vo...@ep...>]

> > 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?

Mark summed it up nicely in his post to our forums.

http://www.ina-community.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=201170

Apart from that it's really neat to have an engine that compiles on a lot of
different platforms with an even larger variety of compilers. Also, having a
Linux client made the Mac port much easier as we are using gcc on both
platforms and it allowed us to showcase UT2003 running on AMD's 64 bit
processor at Comdex.

-- Daniel, Epic Games Inc.