{"id":1990,"date":"2010-04-28T01:06:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T06:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2015-01-19T20:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:40:37","slug":"linux-osmos-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hemispheregames.com\/new_blog\/2010\/04\/28\/linux-osmos-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Osmos Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that Osmos has been successfully absorbed by Linux, and is <a href=\"\/Osmos\">now available<\/a>! Our newly initiated, one-man Linux warrior, Mr David Burke, has done an amazingly quick and solid job on the port, and it&#8217;s been running smoothly on a wide variety of Linux distributions and machines. (Big thanks to all our beta testers!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left; padding:10px; width: 300px;\" src=\"\/images\/linux_penguin_mote.jpg\" title=\"Look what just got absorbed!\" alt=\"Look what just got absorbed!\"\/>Check out our <a href=\"\/FAQ\/#linux_distros\">FAQ<\/a> for a list of Linux distributions that Osmos has been confirmed to run on. Or, if you&#8217;re unsure, download the free demo (in .deb, .rpm, or .tar.gz form) <a href=\"\/Osmos\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, Osmos is <strong>DRM-free<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of hardware specifications, the game has been tested on all sorts of machines.  Dave&#8217;s primary laptop is actually a four year-old Core 2 Duo with on-board Intel graphics, and he made sure the game would perform well on low-end machines.  For the record, though, here are our &#8220;official&#8221; minimum Linux requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Processor: 1.0 GHz<\/li>\n<li>Memory: 512 MB RAM<\/li>\n<li>Video card: any hardware supporting OpenGL<\/li>\n<li>Sound card: no special hardware required; any driver supporting OpenAL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for input, the best Osmos experience is to play with a 3-button mouse; but we&#8217;ve made sure it plays well with just a trackpad and keyboard for all the laptop folk out there. (Check the in-game control menu for details.)<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who have already purchased Osmos from Hemisphere, the Linux version is already yours &#8212; just follow the link in your original purchase email. (We&#8217;ll send you all a new one in the next day or two in case you&#8217;ve lost it.) And for new players, we&#8217;re still offering our $10-deal for <em>all three<\/em> (PC + Mac + Linux) versions together.<\/p>\n<p><em>Still to come&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1) Dave plans to write a post-mortem on his experience with doing the Linux port. Expect to hear his thoughts and feelings (and possibly gripes) on the subject in the next week or so.<\/p>\n<p>2) This port is also an experiment for us as a studio. Specifically, is it worth porting games to Linux? We hope the answer is yes, but we&#8217;ll find out soon enough. And you will too. We plan to publish statistics on our sales and downloads on all three platforms in about a month&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, and happy Osmoting! :)<br \/>\n<em>-The Hemisphere Team<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that Osmos has been successfully absorbed by Linux, and is now available! 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