Re: [HUMOR] Quake 1 source code.

Petko Manolov (petkan@spct.net)
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:09:59 +0000


"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
>
> <SERIOUS MODE>
>
> id software has just released the source for Quake 1 under GPL
> licence according to /. a few minutes ago...

AFAIK the source of QuakeII is available too, but i don't know the
exact terms it ships.

> </SERIOUS MODE>

> <HUMOR MODE>
>
> Since it is GPL, is anyone working on porting Quake to kernel
> mode? It would make a nice addon to SYSRQ for example:

Splendid. And we should add some extra syscalls as
sys_kill_with_shotgun, sys_kill_with_chaingun etc.
It will be very funny playing with the Linux kernel.

> </HUMOR MODE>

Speaking of which, the idea having as many as possible user space
stuff in the kernel (like khtpd) needs therapy ;-)

Petkan

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