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Lutris began as a piece of software called Oblivion Launcher, [citation needed] which was created in 2009 by Mathieu Comandon. He wanted an easier way to manage his games running on Linux, especially the ones that ran using Wine. Lutris began development on Launchpad, with the repository being created on May 5, 2009.
The PlayStation version's development repository was released on GitHub in 2018, converted from an old Microsoft Visual SourceSafe repository. [219] Curiously, it was discovered that the game contained code from the Linux kernel (specifically the vsprintf function, presumably used for debugging), and therefore violates the GNU General Public ...
Proton is a compatibility layer for Windows games to run on Linux -based operating systems. [1][2] Proton is developed by Valve in cooperation with developers from CodeWeavers. [3] It is a collection of software and libraries combined with a patched version of Wine to improve performance and compatibility with Windows games.
The motivation of developers to keep own game content non-free while they open the source code may be the protection of the game as sellable commercial product. It could also be the prevention of a commercialization of a free product in future, e.g. when distributed under a non-commercial license like CC NC. By replacing the non-free content ...
vcpkg provides access to C and C++ libraries to its supported platforms. The command-line utility is currently available on Windows, macOS and Linux. [2] vcpkg was first announced at CppCon 2016. [3] The vcpkg source code is licensed under MIT License and hosted on GitHub. [4]
OpenVR. OpenVR is a software development kit (SDK) and application programming interface (API) developed by Valve for supporting the SteamVR [1][2] and other virtual reality headset devices. [3][4] The SteamVR platform uses it as the default application programming interface and runtime. [5] It serves as the interface between the virtual ...
youtube-dl is a free and open source software tool for downloading video and audio from YouTube [2] and over 1,000 other video hosting websites. [3] It is released under the Unlicense software license. [4] As of September 2021, youtube-dl is one of the most starred projects on GitHub, with over 100,000 stars. [5]
In version control systems, a repository is a data structure that stores metadata for a set of files or directory structure. [1] Depending on whether the version control system in use is distributed, like Git or Mercurial, or centralized, like Subversion, CVS, or Perforce, the whole set of information in the repository may be duplicated on every user's system or may be maintained on a single ...