Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3340 mails)

[Joe Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> The main problem for Linux games, is lack of backward-compatibility
> (read: ABI). That is, a game binary made now, is very unlikely to work
> 10 years from now on year 2018 Linux OS, while most Windows games can
> be played within ~10-15 year compatibility range. That is: Windows 95
> games still mostly work on Windows Vista.

Really, you think it's the ABI?

I downloaded the quake 3 arena demo in 1999. Back in the day I was
playing on redhat 6.x, with a 2.2 kernel - 10 years later, that same
binary plays better than ever on suse 10.3, with a 2.6 kernel.

So, I don't see this as an issue.

The real issue IMHO is the elephant in the room that nobody seems to
have noticed: The frantic efforts of an extremely wealthy monopoly, bent
on fighting linux adoption at every turn, and using their seemingly
endless budget to that end. Is this so hard to see?

Joe
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