Linux Game Development
My articles on Linux Game Development started running yesterday on GameDev.net with article #1 in the series. I'm now a published author! Woo-hoo!
Thanks! I've been toying with the idea of trying Linux development, but so far haven't been able to find the time to face that learning curve. My current project is using SDL, so it may be the time to give it a shot. Looking forward to the next article!
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Excellent, looks like this is going to be a very useful resource. Congratulations on being a published author!
Let us know when the next parts come out.
Bah, just at the time i started using FreeBSD... :-P
It's a little behind when compared to Linux (at least using the "official" distribution), but still a more sane environment than Windows (imho).
Anyway, nice article there. My only "complaint" is that you give a lot of attention to KDE, which is a little more complex than GNOME which is the default environment for the most famous and user friendly Linux distro, Ubuntu (Kubuntu lacks behind and has many issues - having used both Kubuntu and Ubuntu for a long time, i can clearly see that Kubuntu isn't of the same quality as Ubuntu).
*ding ding*Originally Posted by Bad Sector
I was waiting to see how long before the distro "mattered". I was betting no more than 2 posts....guess I was slightly off.
I'm a happy XP user, but also a disgruntled-with-Vista-user. I do work a lot with the SDL libraries on the Windows side, but was waiting for the "right time" before experimenting with Linux...
Them articles by GolfHacker have been great and have really helped ease my paranoia around getting my code ported over without needing 300 shell scripts or any recompilation of kernels. Great work man!
The distro doesn't really matter, after all even in Kubuntu you are only a sudo apt-get install gnome away from having GNOME.
KDE apps work in GNOME and GNOME apps work in KDE, that's not a problem (well, except that it isn't really memory efficient because KDE and GNOME apps tend to load a whole lot of libraries which otherwise would already be loaded - for exampl, under KDE Konqueror needs less than a second to start, while under GNOME it takes ages :-P). However GNOME/KDE apps look a little alien on KDE/GNOME and it really doesn't get advantage of the environment's abilities (f.e. gnome's vfs).
Anyway, if you are going the GNOME route, you may also want to check out Anjuta, which is the preferred IDE of GNOME people (note: prefer the 1.2 version because the 2.0 version is very unstable at the moment).
Another option would be to use Eclipse, of course.
Thanks! The editor note at the end says 7/17 for Part 2, but that can change. Part 1 was originally supposed to be released on 6/25, and they changed the schedule to 6/28. But when it is available, I'll post a notice.Excellent, looks like this is going to be a very useful resource. Congratulations on being a published author!
Let us know when the next parts come out.
Thanks.
Windowing environments are always a matter of personal preference. I prefer KDE, myself. I found it easier to use (from the standpoint of a long-time Windows user like me) and more configurable. And I like the look of KDE. Also, at the time I first started looking into Linux, I thought the GNOME icons and interface were ugly. It has since gotten prettier - when I tested Dirk Dashing on several GNOME-based distros back in October, it didn't look like the same interface that I remember from two years ago. Ubuntu looks very nice, and the GNOME interface was pretty easy to use. But I'm comfortable with KDE now, so I probably won't switch. Especially since Kubuntu 7.04 came out - 6.10 was a bit clunky, but 7.04 is sweeeeet.
Thanks, Erik!
Actually what i meant is that you don't give attention to GNOME (ps. KDE used to look like shit too :-P), although being a very popular desktop environment (i could argue that the fact that there are more GNOME apps than KDE apps around is a sign of "greater popularity" but in reality that could happen because of the Qt's licensing scheme...).
I think when you try to show people about how to do stuff in Linux (in general) you should at least mention tools for KDE and GNOME.
Btw, don't get me wrong here, right now my Linux installation is Kubuntu, so currently i'm a "KDE" user :-).
Also to others: almost everything said in the above article holds true for FreeBSD too :-).
Eww! You're right, that is pretty bad. Nearly as bad as that horrid default metal theme that comes with Java's Swing (or used to, at least; if memory serves, think they changed it recently, and it's no longer quite so bad). When programmer art meets UI design...
I'm posting this from a fresh installation of Ubuntu (not Kubuntu) 7.04, in preparation for porting my game. Been putting this off for too long! Incidentally, Ubuntu has some nice graphic design work put into it.
Metal is still ugly, but they're working on a new one.
Oh, I see. Most of the tools I mentioned are independent of windowing system. I only count three KDE-specific tools I mentioned: Kate, SoniK, and Umbrello.
The reason I didn't mention GNOME tools is because I don't know any. Except for Mono, I only felt comfortable recommending tools that I have actually used.
And it's still ugly
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Indeed, but a) it's a draft and b) it's much better than the previous
Right, that's what I meant. I don't keep up with Java so I wasn't sure whether they'd released it yet or not.
It's not perfect, but it's light-years head of the metal theme!
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