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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by 14113 on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @06:30PM (#5452399)
Also, specifically Ubuntu - it depends on a higher version of libc6 than is available in everything up to and including unstable in Debian repositories, it's only available in experimental.
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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by voltagex_ on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @07:22PM (#5452581)
Also known as Steam syndrome.

Does this trend worry anyone else? Limiting usage to one distro can't be a good thing.

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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by nuclear_eclipse on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @07:34PM (#5452619)
Hasn't stopped other distros from supporting Steam, with Valve's blessings no less. I use Steam on my Arch Linux machines with zero issues.
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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by gee_totes on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @10:25PM (#5453098)
I also a happy user of Steam on Fedora. I can run full-screen games just fine (been playing Faster than Light recently).
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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by qdot76367 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @02:26AM (#5453570)
It usually relies on the libc of the system too, which means you are REALLY limited to bleeding edge ubuntu for these normally. OpenNI has been horrible about this.
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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by 14113 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @02:01PM (#5456519)
It really worries me, especially as it's not just differently structured distros like arch that are out in the cold, but debian, which Ubunutu is derived from.
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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by yarrel on Thursday March 28, 2013 @06:38AM (#5454085)
It's bad. Ubuntu is the corporate partner for companies that don't want to do Free Software.
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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by fnordfnordfnord on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @08:57PM (#5452860)
Currently using Steam on Linux Mint. Works as well as it ever has.
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Re:The Leap Motion Controller Now Supports Linux by ekianjo on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @09:48PM (#5452999)
Mint being more or less a fork of Ubuntu, saying it works on Mint does not say much about the support for other distros.
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