Re: Games on Linux

[Reindl Harald]

Am 25.10.2012 01:09, schrieb Alan Evans:
> Apple is essentially single-platform and Microsoft at least tries to
> keep things backward-compatible. The Linux kernel devs seem, at least
> to the uninitiated, to have some kind of animosity to the very idea of
> ABI compatibility.
>
> Witness VMWare basically recompiling itself every time the user
> updates his kernel. No game developer wants that kind of headache

you can not compare KERNEL modules with userland software

VMware itself does NOT recompile itself
simply because it is a binary
only the kernel-modules are source