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This is a list of specific PC titles. For a list of all PC titles, see List of PC games. The following is a list of games released on the Linux operating system. Games do not need to be exclusive to Linux, but they do need to be natively playable on Linux to be listed here.
The port numbers in the range from 0 to 1023 (0 to 2 10 − 1) are the well-known ports or system ports. [3] They are used by system processes that provide widely used types of network services. On Unix-like operating systems, a process must execute with superuser privileges to be able to bind a network socket to an IP address using one of the ...
Doom was one of the first major commercial games to be released for Linux.. The beginning of Linux as a gaming platform for commercial video games is widely credited to have begun in 1994 when Dave D. Taylor ported the game Doom to Linux, as well as many other systems, during his spare time.
A source port typically only includes the engine portion of the game and requires that the data files of the game in question already be present on users' systems. Source ports share the similarity with unofficial patches that both don't change the original gameplay as such projects are by definition mods.
An ephemeral port is a communications endpoint of a transport layer protocol of the Internet protocol suite that is used for only a short period of time for the duration of a communication session. Such short-lived ports are allocated automatically within a predefined range of port numbers by the IP stack software of a computer operating system.
OpenPorts.se, originally announced as ports.openbsd.nu in 2006, [9] was a custom-written web-site that does its own parsing of the ports tree structure and the updates, and has the functionality of tracking changes of a given port, having a shortcoming of not supporting some of the more complicated Makefile logic, and thus missing some 15% of ...
In 2012 the first Chromebox, a desktop equivalent of the Chromebook, was introduced. By 2013 Chromebooks had captured 20-25% of the US market for sub-$300 laptops. [107] In 2013, Valve publicly released ports of Steam and the Source engine to Linux, [108] allowing many popular titles by Valve such as Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2 to
RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. It is the reference implementation of the libretro API, [2] [3] designed to be fast, lightweight, portable and without dependencies. [4]