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Subject: Re: In few years from now, Windows or Linux?

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 10:29:51 10/11/99

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On October 11, 1999 at 06:16:18, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>My question to you is what system is the most promissing for the future, Windows
>or Linux?
>
>Must rewrite my game for Windows or Linux and still not sure what will be the
>best. I hate Windows secrecy and impossibility to write directly for Windows if
>you use Assembler. All writing must start with expensive SDK (Software
>Development Kit). With Linux everything is open and free. But final question is,
>how promissing is Linux to overthrow Mindows medieval obscuratism in the nearest
>future? What is your feeling about this?
>
If your game is a chessprogram and you want to sell it you should rewrite it for
Linux, because there are already many chessprograms for windows, but not for
Linux.
If you only rewrite the engine you could make it portable to both Windows and
Linux, if you rewrite a GUI you can use Java (;-) or a portable classlib
like Qt.

Frank
>Leonid.



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