[deknos]

you laugh until you get old and the games of your youth do not work anymore because of missing libraries on linux, if there was a linux port.

i am missing my unreal tournament days and would even pay money, if one would build an opensource clone where i could load the original maps of Unreal tournament and UT2004 into the game like with Command & Conquer: Red alert.

(UT2004 crashes randomly on linux and it's always a hassle with the 32bit libs)

[raffraffraff]

I get my Unreal Tournament and Quake Arena kicks from Xonotic. The online community is small, but every day there's at least one DM server with some extremely good players in it.

Edit: the maps are different, but yesterday I joined a server that had one of the Quake Arena maps on it.

[bogwog]

Xonotic is the shit!

[badsectoracula]

FWIW UT2004 works fine under Wine (GOG version) here.

[Ekaros]

UT2004 has native Linux version. I would expect that to still work well. The Windows version does, so there should be no need for Wine at all.

[badsectoracula]

I wouldn't because the Linux UT2004 binary is very old and aside from glibc, X11 and perhaps a couple of other libraries, the Linux userland doesn't really have much of a culture for ABI stability preservation.

There are certainly ways to run Linux UT2004 binary in modern Linux but it'd be way more effort than running the Windows binary under Wine.