I took a look ... and ... is that all the user interface that they have? It might work on a mobile phone, but on a large screen it looks ridiculous.

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Quoting: skinnyrafMacOS is BSD under the hud, but we cannot call Apple free software friendly. If this announcement came from Apple, I'd be sure there wouldn't be Linux support at all.

This is going to be off-topic pedantry, so apologies first. It's pretty inaccurate to say that macOS is 'BSD under the hood'; they take the BSD userland, and due to the fact that the 'hybrid' kernel that they use (XNU) has 'elements' of the BSD kernel, *some* low level utilities like dtrace work. Other features like jails, ZFS & pf don't work. As to the userland, though, what comes on the standard installation are BSD versions of a bunch of *ancient* releases of commandline tools. People who know that they exist, and use them, replace them with more up to date versions, or the GNU versions, via package managers like MacPorts or homebrew. Also -- Apple is pretty 'open source' friendly, but not 'free software' friendly; so that distinction is crucial here.

Quoting: KetilGNU isn't important, just look at the BSDs. The important thing is that it is unix-like.

I fail to see (for practical purposes) how Android is 'unix-like', when anything that faces the user comes from an opaque java layer.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Eh theres already origin uplay they competetion just not under linux

Epic is planning to sell other companies' games too, and they offer 'competitive' percentages as to what the respective 'cuts' will be. I'm not sure about 'Origin' (haven't used it in ages); but on their storefront, ubisoft doesn't sell 3rd party games.

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The other open platform is obviously OpenIndiana, specifically, 'The Hipster Distribution' [External Link]. That's because they're planning to implement 'cloud saves', and they want to leverage the flexibility of ZFS snapshots for that purpose.

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Quoting: eldakingRegarding this new Epic store... this company has a single product so far, which isn't available on Linux. I would not call this promising for us.

Nah, Jazz Jackrabbit Collection is available on Linux -- and DRM-free to boot.

The sequel isn't though.

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I hope they also release steamcmd on the RPi eventually. (Or better yet, open source it.)

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: wvstolzingIf anyone was confused, like me, about this news, the earlier 'opening' (-not-really-though) of PhysX was this: https://developer.nvidia.com/physx-source-github [External Link] , when they made it available over github to 'registered developers'. (I don't know what the latter implies exactly.)

FWIW anyone could register there and access it. Even I have an account there and I'm no developer.

I guess the difference is that this is the new (4.0) SDK, and it's on the BSD aka 'do whatever you want with it' license.

I also didn't know that physx has applications in robotics etc.; that makes it more interesting, because frankly, the effect in games isn't *that* big of a deal imho. (At least it wasn't in titles like Arkham City or Assassin's Creed 4)

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If anyone was confused, like me, about this news, the earlier 'opening' (-not-really-though) of PhysX was this: https://developer.nvidia.com/physx-source-github [External Link] , when they made it available over github to 'registered developers'. (I don't know what the latter implies exactly.)

It looks like this time they're opening it up for good, under a BSD license.

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One thing that might be worth remembering is that this is Google, who are notoriously flakey on certain types of project, and this 'game streaming' thing may be one of those. So I wouldn't be surprised if it just spontaneously evaporates after a while.

Nevertheless, this sounds like very good news for Vulkan, etc.

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Quoting: psycho_driverYou guys obviously have not watched much Dora the Explorer, where the phrase "Where are we going?" is sung in every episode. There's one episode in particular that features a pegasus. Therefore they're obviously working on an original IP:

Dora the Explorer: Pegasus Adventure

I'd like an original IP based on this [External Link], though. It's the first thing that I'm reminded of, when I hear 'Pegasus'.

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