Sorry. I didn't see this sooner. I've helped on the Groups / Desura / Forum / Application Linux with all sorts of issues involving library compatibility issues. The problem is real. I've told countless people how to use tools like ldd and readelf to figure out what is wrong. What wasn't bundled. What was bundled and should not have been. I've seen several updates to game to rebundle in different versions of libraries so games will run. I've help find out what was missing in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH at different times. And people still report problems.

It has gotten better on the forums as of late, but it's a recurring theme. And I'm not blaming Desura. I appreciate the work you and others there have done. (I'm assuming you're the Protekor we all know and love.) I want Desura on Linux (and in general) to succeed. I'm not blaming the developers either. It's just a lot easier to do a 'Release' build for windows and have it work on all supported versions than it is to do anything similar for Linux. I wish that would change. I'd help! But it will take a commitment on the part of the distributions.

I'm currently running the "State of Mind" demo from 2000 (compiled against glibc2.0) on Ubuntu 10.04. But 10.04 isn't new, and I had to gut pulseaudio to get sound that didn't stutter and ultimately die in less then a minute of game play.

Desura is the perfect place to prove that Linux is a pain to support. Games are failing because of incompatible versions of system libraries. I manifests as sound issues, 3D issues, segfaults and links errors.

It might be possible to compile something that will work on several releases of several distributions, but the means of doing so is not easy, well documented or supported. You want your program to run on a given release of a given distribution. The supported solution is to compile for that release of that distribution.

I don't get it. I'm not arguing against what you are saying, but what does that have to do with the comment he was calling BS? The one about "corporate abuses of civil liberties." Is there a connection between the Pro-Life rally and privatizing the TSA?

Awesome! I am totally going to go claim me a part of the local State Park after work. Here I thought I had to go and buy a cabin.

Dunno. How about Minecraft?

At least it's GPL unless something happens to cause Canonical to exercise it's rights under the contributor's agreements to relicense all future releases of Unity under some other less-then-free license. They would be within their rights to switch to any license they wish for future releases while retaining all of the contributed code.

They are attempting to get medieval on the manufactures who have been more than just a little evil.

Citation please? Well, ok. So did I, just a second ago, here

...but I won't stand for this bullshit that somehow charging for a service is "evil".

What service do MS provide in this case? Netflix provides, the content. The ISP provides the bandwidth. MS provides ...? The system? That was paid for.

Mark third party app 'Gold'.
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Profit!

Guess the Underwear Gnomes where right.

I don't know. I think it is possible to achieve good things through inappropriate means.