Unity for Linux/Unix? Maybe Pandora?

News & General Discussion
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During Unite 2008 I read this on Miguel de Icaza’s web log:

Side Note

Since I am a Linuxista, you might be wondering why I am so excited about Unity. Of course I am excited because they use Mono, but I am also excited because Novell is working with Unity to bring this to Linux:

erandi$ uname -a
Linux erandi 2.6.25.16-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-08-21 00:34:25 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
erandi$ ls -l unity-linux/build/LinuxPlayer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 miguel users 45735629 2008-10-12 00:37 unity-linux/build/LinuxPlayer*

We do not have a timeline yet, please do not spam the Unity guys with requests, stay tuned to this blog for updates.

In the long run, if this does happen, we’ll we be able to develop for the open source handheld Pandora? Below are Pandora specs and a link to the website. Could this happen?

  • ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
  • 430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
  • PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
  • 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
  • Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth High Speed USB 2.0 Host
  • Dual SDHC card slots SVideo TV output
  • Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
  • 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
  • Around 10+ Hours battery life

http://www.openpandora.org/

Thanks,

TheLorax

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http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=14646

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aNTeNNa trEE, yes I had seen that thread, but did not see them mention the above blog and the fact that Unity was working with Novell to, I assume, build a Linux player.

I’m not so much interested in the ability to work with the IDE on a Linux box, but, if I could work on a MAC/Win and deploy to Linux - and in turn Pandora…that would be nice!

We are already doing iTouch stuff, but the more devices the better!!! (Insert evil laughter)

Thanks,

TheLorax