Going on Linux with the Frogans Player: Looking for Good Dancers
My inaugural post last May was entitled “Frogans Player beta expected soon“. It’s been but the blink of an eye since then, in geological terms. Can I see a show of hands of all the geologists out there reading this? Anybody…?
The Frogans Player is still under development. A great deal has already been accomplished, but for a beta to be ready it will take a few more weeks (that you can count on your fingers, not on your toes). Take it as an indication of the strength of STG Interactive’s commitment to the development of Frogans Technology.
The principal behind Frogans Technology demands not only perfect cohesion between its three pillars, these being the Frogans Player, FSDL and FNSL, but that this cohesion applies to users on each of the current three major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (x86). A frogans must look and behave the same on Linux as it does on Windows, as it does on a Mac, as it does on Linux. Without a glitch.
A very strong effort is being made to insure the functioning and compatibility of the Linux release of the Frogans Player. As rapid, robust and reliable as it must be on other operating systems, the Frogans Player for Linux must also be capable of adapting to the various system configurations and settings available to Linux users.
Running under Linux the Frogans Player must, among other things, be able to work with:
- different window environments, such as GNOME and KDE
- activation and deactivation of compositing window managers (for full alpha channel support)
- multiple display monitors
- differing system configurations during installation (personal, global and temporary installations)
The officially targeted Linux distributions for the Frogans Player will be Debian 4.0 (April 2007), Ubuntu 7.04 (April 2007), OpenSuse 10.2 (December 2006), Fedora Core 7 (March 2007) and Mandriva 2007.1 (April 2007).
STG Interactive will also test the Frogans Player under previous versions of theses distributions released since 2005 and will post whatever issues that we might come across in the release notes.
Since we’re eager to broaden the range of Linux configurations with which the Frogans Player will work, testing and feedback from users of all Linux configurations are welcome. If you’d like to test a pre-release of the Frogans Player for Linux, please contact me.