Star Interview with Michael Speck of LGames
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 11th Aug 2002 18:43 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews If there are two individuals in the Linux game scene today that they brought a lot and very good Free games to all Linux users, these should be Michael Speck of LGames and Bill Kendrick of NewBreedSoftware. Their games have been played not only by Linux users, but by users on all major platforms via the portability of the SDL game library. Today, we interview Michael Speck, regarding his games, his opinions about the Linux game market, about Linux's performance as a multimedia platform, his future plans and much more.
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by Anonymous on Mon 12th Aug 2002 07:22 UTC

Michael Speck: Windows and Linux are the only ones. My first Linux distribution was SuSE 6.0 but as its updates became too expensive I switched to Mandrake 8.x.

So, I wonder, how could you play Turrican which was your all time favourite on the Commodore 64, if you only use Windows and Linux before....?

Anonymous: Good point about Suse, I also haven't used it since iso's stopped being freely available - and i don't know if it's any good these days, so i wouldn't buy it or recommend it to anyone. I would guess Suse are shooting themselves in the foot in the long run.

On one hand, they can provide ISOs so freeloaders can download - not only they don't get any money from it, they waste bandwidth. On the other hand, you loose market share. There is an FTP install, use it, see if you like it, and buy the package. This is the sole reason why Linux businesses are dropping dead one after another...

So in the first place, how do they shoot their own foot when they don't make a single cent out of you?

Ben: Maybe SuSE should give away 7.4 ISO files.

IIRC, they didn't have a 7.4.....

Besides, I wish they can have ISOs for download. For a fee of course. Why? There isn't one, not even one, reseller in south east asia selling SuSE 8.0. I could buy over the Net, but shipping would cost more than the product itself...