[mdlug] Darwinia game at Big Lots for $4

[Wolfger]

On Nov 19, 2007 8:38 AM, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> This weekend I saw the Windows version of the game Darwinia on sale at our local
> Big Lots store for $4. The game has a native Linux executable for download, and runs
> wonderfully in Linux. It's an interesting game, and isn't like the usual stuff.

I played a free demo version of Darwinia once. It was indeed
"different". I think it's well worth $4, at any rate.

>  Also, on my Ubuntu 7.06 system one of the shared libraries it comes with doesn't
> play nice with the rest of the system, but I just renamed the file and the version
> that came with Ubuntu works just fine. Can't remember which library offhand but
> there's only about four, and if you get this problem the error message will include
> the library name in it.

Ubuntu 7.06? Was that Gutsy's Alpha release? ;-)
Yes, this is one of the bittersweet realities of Linux: too many
different ways of doing things makes it difficult for a vendor to
package software that works flawlessly everywhere. On the other hand,
you can at least fix it if something doesn't work, unlike certain
other proprietary systems where if it doesn't run, you're just out of
luck...


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