I was just wondering if the Engine will be avalible for Linux rpm, Any time soon?
You mean the Unity Editor itself? No, porting the editor to Linux isn’t even on their roadmap.
To be clear, linux export support is already implemented in Unity 4 series. You need to create a RPM yourself, after exporting the project.
Sorry I just had to laugh LMAO
I don’t understand why you would laugh my(your) arse off to a perfectly fine answer?
?? Editor really will not be ported to Linux. Where is the fun?
If the Unity 3d team isn’t going to make the Unity editor itself available to Linux why are they trying to export Unity games to Linux?Windows can use unity and have it export to Windows. Same with macs so why not Linux?
Unity was Mac-only for years (until 2.5) and could still export to Windows. Why is an export platform related to running the editor on that platform? You can’t run the editor on an iPad either…
–Eric
Well mostly because of the build tool chain. Same reason we don’t export iOS from windows. Last thing I heard is that the editor itself is running, but we can’t really call it Unity without the lightmapping, occlusion culling, shader compilation, etc. We have many talented developers who are signing up for this at every ninja camp, and each time they come one step closer.
But even when all tool chains are properly ported its still a trade-off. We need tonnes of QA to test the entire thing on a new platform, and re-test the builds on all targets that the Linux platform can export to. Plus we need to test all future features and releases on that extra platform. So money wise I doubt it would make sense in the near future. That doesn’t means it wont happen! Unity isn’t always driven by profit, especially not if its something cool. It just means that right now my guess would be that we would loose money on this particular feature. (I’m not in marketing, I don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, just my guess. 
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But if windows 8 or any future platform actually turns into a dooms day scenario like some predict(or hope), rest assured that Unity would be able to close the gap and make a linux editor faster than linux would be unified and ready to take on the role of primary OS for the human race. 
Makes sense, even though its a pain to still use windows for Unity and not go all Lunix, its just not logical for the whole community. Also you sound like a windows hater 
, my type of guy. How about instead of a world apocalypse there is a windows apocalyspe 
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Highly doubtful, even though windows 8 is bad microsoft doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon.
Slightly off topic, but how exactly is W8 really all that bad? Metro, annoying at least, but does that truly destroy a desktop environment? Just forsake the faster boots, the more tweaked performance, all due to a design change? Change can be good, how would the game environment change if we did not take risks and change things? We would still be making games with Assembly!
Is there any chance of a Unity port to Linux/ARM, so that games could be played on a Raspberry PI or Beagleboard?
Well windows and me got a classic love/hate thing going. I got hooked on that drug called visual studio… I’ve tried to quit, but I simply cant. Perhaps one day the alternatives will learn from visual studio I’ll be able to follow my dreams and be rid of windows.
Well you asked for a rant, so how can I refuse that?
I think my main problem with windows is that microsoft being who they are just have to attempt to gain even more dominance. And when it comes down to it the OS is the kinda thing you want stable and working, and open for all your content. Its fine they do architecture changes when its needed, new CPU and hardware sometimes require a restructure. Security and the ability to run content and trusting that the OS ensures that the content doesn’t destroy your installation, now I’m all for that. I think I’m the only person I know of who liked windows Vista and never disabled the UAC, though I have to admit I quickly switched to Windows 7 when they released that. At some point its ok to say the gui looks crap lets add some fancy stuff to it (AERO) people can then disable it for a few years until they get used to it. But we got several ways to sand box content, why not perfect those, make them easy to use? Instead of building a new one that coincidentally only works with their shop… so now we’ll have to wait till windows 8 becomes the standard, and then wait for EU to kick into gear and use their monopoly laws, and then in five years we’ll have a court ruling that they must open the API and allow other legal entities to provide access to Metro content. Microsoft is likely to release the API about one week later cause they had 5 years to prepare for the inevitable ruling.
Ahh that helped… nothing like a good rant once in a while. 
Following MS seems like the only path…
Unless enough people skip 8, forcing MS to re-think their strategy.
They pulled back a lot of crap done in Vista and even big companies (like Intel) said they wouldn’t be going for it (they stuck with XP for a while longer).
That is what I think made 7 what it is.
I still have this wierd feeling in the back of my mind that Android will soon become a PC OS, and it will very quickly become Andoid v Mac v Windows
Do you have proof of this actually happening? Has android said anything about developing a PC OS?
What Microsoft did with Windows 8 was just plain dumb.They designed the GUI like a phone and I think that can be quite annoying for people who are used to simpler GUIs.
From what I can analyze about it the problem Microsoft is facing with Windows is this
Thus far, I am unaware of an OS that has gained major market share in both the PC and the smartphone/Tablet world with just one version of the OS(Correct me if I am wrong on this but I am unlikely to be wrong on this since Microsoft has dominated the PC OS market since almost the market was even created). Even Google as massively successful as it has been with the Android for smartphone/Tablet does not push Android for PC. For PC they have so far, unsuccessfully tried to push Chrome OS.
Microsoft is the first major OS vendor to have even attempted this. The geeks(quite a number of em) seem not to mind this. The regular folk? Not so much. And Unfortunately for Microsoft, there are just too many regular people on the planet.
Actually no, Windows on smartphones is different than Windows on desktops. It’s two versions, Windows RT and Windows 8.
–Eric