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RE[3]: Unfortunately true
by lemur2 on Tue 4th Oct 2011 01:45
in reply to "RE[2]: Unfortunately true"
Only works if someone else packaged it for that distribution. Have fun trying to run an older application that no one cared about. I remember trying to build XTank and NetTrek for Linux back in 2001 I think. Not fun.
One would have more ability to take XTank and NetTrek and improve on them than one would for any commercial game.
There are literally tens of thousands of packages in Debian/Ubuntu repositories, and in the case of Ubuntu, perhaps a hundred thousand more in external repositories such as launchpad.
The thing with Linux is that for the majority of packages available for it, one CAN compile the source. Legally. If one wants to. For the majority of packages for Windows, one can't.
Out of the two scenarios, the former is better than the latter for users.
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Only works if someone else packaged it for that distribution.
Have fun trying to run an older application that no one cared about.
I remember trying to build XTank and NetTrek for Linux back in 2001 I think. Not fun.