From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Dec 24 11:56:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1694215209 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:56:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial-rs2-205-49.netcologne.de [194.8.205.49]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA27537; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:56:07 +0100 (MET) Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA08071; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:54:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 20:54:56 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199912241954.UAA08071@oranje.my.domain> X-Authentication-Warning: oranje.my.domain: marc set sender to van.woerkom@netcologne.de using -f From: Marc van Woerkom To: toasty@dragondata.com Cc: van.woerkom@netcologne.de, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199912241810.MAA02108@celery.dragondata.com> (message from Kevin Day on Fri, 24 Dec 1999 12:10:15 -0600 (CST)) Subject: Re: Quake 3 Reply-To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de References: <199912241810.MAA02108@celery.dragondata.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Any idea how the Linux version will be marketed? > > Buying the Win32 CD plus grabbing some Linux binaries from a web site > > or buying a different Linux specific box? > > There's far more info here: > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/23/1116248&mode=thread > than I can put in an e-mail. :) Thanks, the interesting bit was this one http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=99/12/23/1116248&cid=120 In short: Id will release updates sometime that allow cross converting between Win32, Mac and Linux versions (fsk, no FreeBSD yet .. :) They put it on hold, because everyone would pick up the early available Win32 version in stores, yielding wrong statistics regarding to Mac and Linux sales. It is obviously seen as a test for the potential of the Linux market. Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message