On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:53:26 PM C wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 17:35, Ludwig Nussel
wrote: Roger Luedecke wrote:
www.desura.com
So what does this do? Implement yet another package manager for their hosted binaries?
At the risk of one more mail to Factory about this.... Basically, it's a competitor for Steam - a digital game distribution service - but it includes a much-in-demand Linux version. In some respects you could look at it as yet another package manager, but... it's not distro specific like say an openSUSE repo or an Ubuntu repo. So a game distributor/developer can potentially use Desura to distribute (and sell) their Windows/Linux game without bothering with or worrying about msi, exe, deb, rpm etc.
C. Right, and this could be just the sort of thing to help build up support for Linux gaming and help dual-booters with their "Wintendos" finally delete their Win partitions. Since Desura has management of the programs in it, it helps against the sloppiness of installing tarballs or from source... which is rather akin to package management. But it addresses many issues I have had with Linux games that we don't carry in repo, or that are commercial. -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador Ind. Repairs and Consulting **Looking for a C++ etc. mentor*** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org