RE: [GD-General] RE: Hardware Survey
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From: J. V. <jva...@in...> - 2003-01-07 21:19:25
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Daniel Vogel writes: > > > 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. What Daniel neglected to mention is that there are several Linux users who possess photographs of Daniel in a, *ahem*, compromised state. I don't think we can rule out blackmail. -- jv |