quote: Original post by C-Junkie
but under the libraries, section, could you add another paragraph with links to gtk, gtkmm, and qt?

Sure, I''ll add an applicable section.

quote: Original post by Null and Void
In fact, those two are the only non-Linux and non-BSD unixes that I had listed to which I had given links (AIX and HP-UX are listed without links because I was lazy). The FAQ is missing Mac OS X and Solaris community, documentation, news, and related links. If you have such sites to suggest, I''ll add them; I don''t really know what sites Mac OS X and Solaris users find helpful . I suppose I could just list what Google returns though (I''ll get around to that tomorrow if no one has anything specific to suggest, I guess)...

My point is mostly that the FAQ should clearly state that it''s wrong to suggest Unix == Linux (and/or BSD), but that "Unix" is quite a wide family of operating systems from lots of different vendors for differnt purposes. Whether you provide "useful" links for each of them individually doesn''t really matter. If anyone does have a problem they''re all reasonably similar anyway, and chances are that a portion of any good information for a particular distro or OS applies generally.

Why? Are you writing a game for HP-UX/AIX/Solaris?

Maybe solaris isn''t out of the question, but compatibility on solaris is usually just a side effect of running on linux.

quote: Original post by C-Junkie
Why? Are you writing a game for HP-UX/AIX/Solaris?

Maybe solaris isn''t out of the question, but compatibility on solaris is usually just a side effect of running on linux.

I think Solaris is still used almost as much as linux. I think the only reason we are more familiar with linux is that its much cheaper (actually, I heard that Solaris is free for personal and programming use). But many companies/universities use Solaris because its much more stable than linux. Of course, this is GameDev, and I don''t think system administrators are the target of our games, but we don''t discuss game programming too much in this forum anyway. But then again, system administrators aren''t too likely to be looking into Gamedev anyway.

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