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[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I looked at the blog post you pointed out. You should stay away of such
> a stupid thing as a blog for hating something. Indeed the blog post is
> biased. If you follow the link, you'll find a set of normal questions
> from a non-linux game developer, and the first answers that they got are
> entirely reasonable. There's not so much to say: SDL is dated but it's
> working well. OpenGL is the state-of-the-art 3d graphics library.
> That's what i can read in the replies.
>

Not at all. The Linux Hater's blog is a Linux advocate who is showing
what is wrong with Linux and the FOSS community in general.

> And the conclusion is that linux for now may have worse tools, but
> you'll surely get the job done.
>

The conclusion was that the dev was attacked by the Linux community
for various reasons, mostly his unwillingness to have GCC, Xorg and
other components patched. He did not want a kludge.

The problem is that Linux does not yet offer a stable API to game
devs. Just look at Pulse Audio.

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