[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO & Linux in General

[Manney]

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 08:18:06PM -0400, Rob Rosenbrock wrote:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
>>> On Behalf Of John W. Linville
> 
>>> Please cite an example of these programs "offered strictly as source".
>>> Try to make it one that actually has broad appeal.  No doubt there
>>> are apps available only as source, but only because they are either
>>> too new to have proved themselves useful or of too limited appeal to
>>> be worth packaging by the distros.
> 
>> Per the conditions you've set, any program named would be termed as 'non
>> worthy.' I have no idea what program Rich might have been referring to, but
>> the case that comes to my mind is Doomsday, a Linux port of Doom. Since
> 
> OK, you got one.  It looks like there used to be a Fedora package for
> it, but not anymore -- not sure why.  This might qualify it in the
> "not worth packaging" since it overlaps with another package in the
> repo, but I suspect you won't agree... :-)
> 
> FWIW prboom is available.  You'll also need the original WADs from
> ID or the freedoom package instead.

The problem with prboom is that it's not as "feature rich" as Doomsday 
is. I prefer ZDoom myself (don't care too much for OpenGL ports of 
Doom). prboom is okay if I want something *close* (note I said close) to 
vanilla. :)

Actually, I wonder if Chocolate Doom has a Linux port?

Speaking of ZDoom, I think that it may be one of those that doesn't 
officially release a *choke* RPM or a DEB. There have been some released 
by users, though.

-M.