From bvanevery at gmail.com  Sat Oct 20 21:38:45 2012
From: bvanevery at gmail.com (Brandon Van Every)
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:38:45 -0400
Subject: [Trilug-ontopic] Steam coming to Linux
Message-ID: <CAHyV5js5KKB1rWVoW1+vL=RcGNb4rEhwZEVQTyYMstoPfagPPg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, I'm new, and I have not met any of you in person yet.  Much as you
can tell I like political debate, I need to refocus on the reasons I
signed up for these mailing lists.  :-)

Earlier this year I learned that Valve was bringing the Steam gaming
portal to Linux.  I was sorely sick of the Microsoft toolchains,
especially Visual Studio and MSBuild, so I bolted.  Valve's entry
changed the likelyhood of a viable gaming market developing on Linux -
and by that I mean the Linux desktop, not Android.  I calculated that
even if Valve didn't follow through on their intent, the Desura portal
already existed on Linux and the Humble Indie Bundle was having a
disproportionate amount of Linux backing.  So it seemed to me that
it's a good time to become a Linux indie game developer, possibly
seizing a window of opportunity as it begins to open.  As it turns
out, Valve did follow through on their plans.  They've supposed to be
doing a closed external beta of Steam on Linux sometime this month.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE5MzI

So, what do you LUGers know about Linux game development, or efforts
in that direction in the region?  I'm interested.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every

From bvanevery at gmail.com  Fri Oct 26 10:56:36 2012
From: bvanevery at gmail.com (Brandon Van Every)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:56:36 -0400
Subject: [Trilug-ontopic] Steam coming to Linux
In-Reply-To: <CAHyV5js5KKB1rWVoW1+vL=RcGNb4rEhwZEVQTyYMstoPfagPPg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHyV5js5KKB1rWVoW1+vL=RcGNb4rEhwZEVQTyYMstoPfagPPg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE5MzI
>
> So, what do you LUGers know about Linux game development, or efforts
> in that direction in the region?  I'm interested.

That much interest.  Ouch.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every

From bill at arrowsreach.com  Fri Oct 26 14:20:43 2012
From: bill at arrowsreach.com (Bill Farrow)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:20:43 -0400
Subject: [Trilug-ontopic] Steam coming to Linux
In-Reply-To: <CAHyV5jsZ=1O7tqF3hXWbKi=zjNT5mwFPgFK2hQ=N6VNuNoMj9A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHyV5js5KKB1rWVoW1+vL=RcGNb4rEhwZEVQTyYMstoPfagPPg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAHyV5jsZ=1O7tqF3hXWbKi=zjNT5mwFPgFK2hQ=N6VNuNoMj9A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAPm8Nr2n8fb_DfP8fnvA33P_g=Krs0xWrNshRREgqVuSu_0NGA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE5MzI
>>
>> So, what do you LUGers know about Linux game development, or efforts
>> in that direction in the region?  I'm interested.
>
> That much interest.  Ouch.

Hi Brandon,

The mailing list you sent this to is a bit of an accident from a
flame-up over trying to set some TriLUG policy via mailing list
conversation a few years ago. It could have been a fairly useful list,
but in practice it's too low-volume to attract the
attention/subscribers that would be needed to get a question like
yours answered.

That's a long way of saying that maybe you should try posting to the
main trilug at trilug.org list instead of trilug-ontopic.


Bill (and Crist?bal)

From bvanevery at gmail.com  Fri Oct 26 18:03:37 2012
From: bvanevery at gmail.com (Brandon Van Every)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:03:37 -0400
Subject: [Trilug-ontopic] Steam coming to Linux
In-Reply-To: <CAPm8Nr2n8fb_DfP8fnvA33P_g=Krs0xWrNshRREgqVuSu_0NGA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAHyV5js5KKB1rWVoW1+vL=RcGNb4rEhwZEVQTyYMstoPfagPPg@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAHyV5jsZ=1O7tqF3hXWbKi=zjNT5mwFPgFK2hQ=N6VNuNoMj9A@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAPm8Nr2n8fb_DfP8fnvA33P_g=Krs0xWrNshRREgqVuSu_0NGA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAHyV5jsuG5RHSxnxxJR0chce1qsrsD_BcV-sVx5gwGhCmfzZZA@mail.gmail.com>

Aha.  Unsubscribing from the not-really-used list.  Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers,
Brandon Van Every


On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE5MzI
>>>
>>> So, what do you LUGers know about Linux game development, or efforts
>>> in that direction in the region?  I'm interested.
>>
>> That much interest.  Ouch.
>
> Hi Brandon,
>
> The mailing list you sent this to is a bit of an accident from a
> flame-up over trying to set some TriLUG policy via mailing list
> conversation a few years ago. It could have been a fairly useful list,
> but in practice it's too low-volume to attract the
> attention/subscribers that would be needed to get a question like
> yours answered.
>
> That's a long way of saying that maybe you should try posting to the
> main trilug at trilug.org list instead of trilug-ontopic.
>
>
> Bill (and Crist?bal)
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