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Not all Linux servers have stability issues. Mine runs just fine. No
stability or CPU utilization problems. A bit of a memory leak, but
that should be fixed in the upcoming patch.<br>
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Damian Kaczmarek wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi!
Let me put up a longer email.
Ok, firstly, what's reassuring:
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<pre wrap="">Ryan:
Epic has delivered for Linux customers, game after game and year after
year, and always above the expectations that are put on any other company.
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<pre wrap="">The Linux client is important, it's being worked on, and it will ship
when it's ready.
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The things we know(as much as I've been following the mailing list) are:
- the reason for delay are supposed to be some legal issues
originally suspected to be Ageia PhysX engine
related(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=929&num=1">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=929&num=1</a>),
however this has been neglected by Ryan in some sort of unofficial IRC
chat reported by: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6641">http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6641</a>
And Ageia couldn't have been an issue anyway, in some posts on this
mailing list, Ryan described his collaboration with Ageia in bringing
the Linux compatible code.
What we can gather is that parts of both client and server had to be
rewritten for the sake of some really dumb legal issue. Server is out,
so now some unknown client code has to be redone too.
Epic has some relationship with Microsoft on Gears of War as far as I
know, so Microsoft threating to pull the trigger wouldn't be a
surprise for me.
Another thing I'm skeptical about is the quality of Linux UT3 server,
for what I'm hearing the stability is horrible ... if it's so hard to
deliver a stable server how much time can it take to deliver a stable
client? And is it related again to the offending code? Let's hope to
get answers to this.
-Reason for chaos and disinformation:
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<pre wrap="">Ryan in response to a polite request for update:
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<pre wrap="">+1 for polite request for update.
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<pre wrap="">Indeed; I do appreciate the politeness!
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<pre wrap="">I've adopted a policy of not discussing releases before they ship,
though, as it seems to get me in trouble. I will definitely tell you
guys first when there's something to tell.
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>From me to Ryan: Maybe it would be worth to consider changing the
policy ... many people lose their precious time while following this
mailing list in hope for any bits of information.
- I'll just remind what Ryan answered to some really basic question
almost at the beginning:
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<pre wrap="">is, are we going to see a Linux client when UT3 is released
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Ryan: yes.
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So yeah, there is hope, there is anger, there is uncertainty.
Anger is on my side too ... I've bought original UT3 box and paid even
more because it was shipped from abroad ... Never opened the box, it
lays somewhere waiting for better times.
For all the bored people, I recommend playing another game ->
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.teewars.com">http://www.teewars.com</a> - really fun, competetive, skill based and
multiplatform(Win/Linux x86/Linux x86_64/MacOSX).
Cheers All
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