Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 20:56 UTC, submitted by Michael
The folks over at Phoronix had an interesting interview with Linux game porter, Frank Earl. Despite the apparent decline in PC gaming, Earl has worked for Linux Game Publishing for several years and was seeking input from the community at large for game suggestions at Phoronix. He's also done work independently on porting various software over from Windows. The interview covers work that Earl has done, difficulties that arise in porting commercial games to Linux, successes they've had, his views on Linux in general, and his thoughts on the future of gaming in Linux.
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Well, in the case of SDL you have a library that is stable and somewhat feature complete for years now.
So it never came to a surprise for me that there are mostly bugfix releases happening, and those quite rarely.
It is very nice to know however, that great efforts are still put into SDL. We have a very stable, simple and convenient API here that is still getting improved under the hood -- great.