As some of you know, we had been looking for someone to port Osmos to Linux. But in the end, after mulling it over for a while (and a couple nice offers from experienced Linux folk), our very own Dave Burke has decided to tackle the port himself! Who knew he was such a masochist? 
Anyways, Dave has reported back that after some initial head-banging on installation and configuration (he’s started with Ubuntu), things are progressing really well. Hooray for cross-platform libraries like OpenGL, OpenAL, libogg/vorbis, etc. and well abstracted code!
He even promised a screen shot a few days ago and — lo and behold! — just delivered:
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What’s more, he says he’ll be ready for some external testing by next week! So it looks like the wait is nearly over for all you Linux users. 
In the meantime, let us know (by email or on the forum) if you’re interested in early “alpha” testing or participating in the closed beta.
on Apr 16th, 2010 at 4:32 am
Oh, great! Really good news! Goodbye Win-VM!
on Apr 16th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
That’s good news :). I’ll buy it as soon as it comes out! *Cheap* *cheap*!
on Apr 16th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Yay! I’ll finally be able to buy Osmos!
on Apr 18th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Oh my. I bought the game on Steam, will I be entitled to some goodwill gesture?
on Apr 18th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
@jarreboum: Same here, bought it on steam. But as an 98% time linux user, didn’t really have the time to play it much - rebooting into windows just doesn’t feel right… REALLY happy to see it comming to GNU/Linux though!
on Apr 26th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
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on Apr 28th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Ow yes! And still waiting for a cool osmos screensaver =D
on May 18th, 2010 at 8:49 am
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