Fun software

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

You will not attract end users to Linux by shipping compilers exotic
languages or servers.  You will attract them by providing them with
software useful for everyday life or fascinating-fun software.  That
means games and software allowing artistic creation.

I am on the verge of upgrading half of the "fun" software of
Independence.  That includes Moonlight, FlightGear and the required
libraries who also got upgraded: freetype, gltt and Mesa.  Mesa got
upgraded to 3.0 because it is supposed to be much faster.  I cannot
tell because my box got a new main board since the last time I tried
the demos.

In fact you should have been able to find them at the site by now had not
egcs 1.0.3a crashed when compiling moonlight.  I am presently downloading
1.1 but I heard there are compatibility problems with the libraries.
Perhaps simpler would be to drop moonlight and start looking for another
modeller.

The other half of the fun software is the Gimp: I want to provide the
most complete Gimp 1.0 available.  That means exotic features
ordinarily left out like Mpeg support.  It also means all the
unofficial scripts and plug-ins I can grab.  Building an RPM for them
can be tedious however because most of them come with no Makefile at
all.

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org