| Filename | New Linux kind aims to club most benefits of other distributions |
| Permission | Freeware |
| Author | D-38 |
| Category | INFORMATION |
New Linux kind aims to club most benefits of other distributions
There is a wide kind of distributions for Linux. This could indecisive developers & enthusiasts to have more than one distribution for Linux installed at any time. Now there is a distributions of Linux that aims to have the best features of all different popular distributions but its in development state.
Acc. to Bedrock( http://opensource.osu.edu/~paradigm/bedrock/ ) this new Linus distribution "If one would like a rock-solid stable base (for example, from Debian or a RHEL clone) yet still have easy access to cutting-edge packages (from, say, Arch Linux), automate compiling packages with Gentoo's portage, and ensure that software aimed only for the ever popular Ubuntu will run smoothly - all at the same time, in the same distribution - Bedrock Linux will provide a means to achieve this.”
This is a awesoem news for developers who like to game once in a wile. Valve is working on aport of system for Linux, & porting their popular digital distribution platform specifically to Ubuntu. Recently, Valve has announced success at porting their zombie based Co-operative first person shooter - Left 4 Dead 2.
According to the post on the Valve's Linux developer blog, it state that Left 4 Dead 2 runs faster onLinus then on Windows. "We are using a 32-bit version of Linux temporarily and will run on 64-bit Linux later." The blog post continues, “Running Left 4 Dead 2 on Windows 7 with Direct3D drivers, we get 270.6 FPS as a baseline. The data is generated from an internal test case."
The blog reports that orginally the intial port of Left 4 Dead 2 was only running at 6 FPS. They then had optimized the code to work better with the Linux Kernel, & with OpenGL, & also optimized the graphic driver. After doing this modification the blog stats that Left 4 Dead 2 is now running at 303.4 FPS on their best end testing machine. these tests were don on a machine running on Intel Core i7 3930k with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU & 32GB of RAM. & also on the os side they used Windows 7 Service Pack 2 ^$-bit & Ubuntu 12.02 32-bit.
& The first post on the blog stated that the Gable Newell, head of Valve, has been interested in the possibillity of moving stream & the Source Engine to Linux. then the other blog post says that, “At the time, the company was already using Linux by supporting Linux-based servers for Source-based games and also by maintaining several internal servers (running a 64-bit version of Ubuntu server) for various projects. In 2011, based on the success of those efforts and conversations in the hallway, we decided to take the next step and form a new team. At that time, the team only consisted of a few people whose main purpose was investigating the possibility of moving the Steam client and Left 4 Dead 2 over to Ubuntu.”
The reason Valve picked Ubuntu is that its the most popular Linux distributions, as it want to first work on a single distribution it also reduces the vriability of testing space, it makes early iterations and faster. & it “has recognition with the general gaming and developer communities."
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