Could you please provide more information about the support related Linux?
Is it possible to create games that will run in Linux directly? If not, would it be possible to run them using Wine.
There seem to be no download available for Linux. Is it possible to run the editor in Linux using Wine? Are there any plans about enhancing the support in Linux?
Unity 4.0 will ship with a preview of a Linux Export feature that will allow you to publish content for 32-bit and 64-bit desktop systems. Please see Unity Pro
I’m not sure anyone will see this, but for future reference, I’ve done a couple of tests, and so have others. The results are as such:
Works with:
Doesn’t work with:
Those where it didn’t work, it installed fine, but upon attempting to run, it crashes with the error ‘Error initializing license system’. Bug reports can henceforth be sent, but that’s about it. Those where it did run, you could not minimise the window, and there were the occasional crashes.
Could you please provide more
information about the support related
Linux? Is it possible to create games
that will run in Linux directly?
Yes, see - http://unity3d.com/unity/multiplatform/desktop
If not, would it be possible to run them using Wine.
Depends, you may find applications that are built with Unity and run on Linux using Wine here - http://appdb.winehq.org/
For running Unity Web Player applications see the community set up wiki page - http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/Running_Unity_Web_Player_on_Linux_using_Pipelight
There seem to be no download available for Linux. Is it possible to run the editor in Linux using Wine?
Are there any plans about enhancing the support in Linux?
There is yet any news of a Unity Editor for Linux from Unity Technologies.
The editor can be run with Wine.
See the community set up wiki page - http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/Running_Unity_on_Linux_through_Wine
As @Bunny83 said, you can definitely try it in Wine. Beyond that, the latest Unity beta is supposed to work with Chrome’s native client. You could look into that as another way of running apps in Linux. Finally, if you’re willing to run in a web browser from linux, the latest Unity beta also includes a compiler for Flash, so that’s another possibility.