RE: [GD-General] RE: Hardware Survey

[J. V. <jva...@in...>]

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.

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jv