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Welcome, Ubuntu users.

Nov 30, 2010 incarnate link
Canonical has told me that, as of today, VO is now live in the Ubuntu Software Center.

So, while we've had a substantial Linux-user population since 2002, we now welcome.. more!
Nov 30, 2010 slime73 link
Wooo! Awesome. :D
Nov 30, 2010 Lord~spidey link
YEEEESSSSSS!
I will see if I can confirm this.
[edit] its not up yet D:
[edit 2] well it probably has to do with the fact i checked with the eee and its under the system requierments or something.[
Nov 30, 2010 incarnate link
Well, it's up.. somewhere, as we're seeing Ubuntu-specific usage in our stats-tracking. But we could be seeing Canonical Q/A people or some such. At any rate, they specifically emailed me to tell me it was online, so I would hope it's in the process of being pushed out or some such.
Nov 30, 2010 Lord~spidey link
thing is don't you need to lisense the game under the GPL lisense to put it in the ubuntu app thingy?
Nov 30, 2010 incarnate link
Not in the Software Center, no. That's the special area for pay apps and the like. Kind of an "App Store" for Ubuntu, with the potential to actually have a revenue stream for them. It's different from the normal package manager dealie. I don't know the specifics of where it's located in the UI, as I haven't used 10.10 yet.
Dec 01, 2010 CrazySpence link
ill check when i get to work I'm running 10.10 there
Dec 01, 2010 CrazySpence link
yup its there under for purchase
Dec 01, 2010 CrazySpence link
price says $0 and it also comes up under the search. woo

Epic, it asks you to make an account or if you already have one on first launch
Dec 01, 2010 Lord~spidey link
how odd i'm using the "Ubuntu Software Center" its probably because i'm running 9.10 and 10.04
Dec 01, 2010 incarnate link
Yes, putting things up for sale is supposedly a 10.10 thing.

Good to hear it independently confirmed that it shows up.

The "do you already have an account" stuff is a back-propagation from Android. There'll be a number of other bits like that, down the road.
Dec 01, 2010 Detructor link
yup, found it :)

nice...I'll spread the word ;).
Dec 02, 2010 yodaofborg link
It's on 10.10, but not the netbook remix. So yay.
Dec 08, 2010 Fantus Drake link
I am an Ubuntu user. Never heard of Vendetta before seeing it in the Ubuntu Software Center.

Having fun so far. I'm a 7 year EVE player, but I love twitch combat, so I'll be switching back and forth between the two.

Nice to have a game that works equally well under Windows and Linux. I have a ubuntu box at work so when I'm stuck updating servers on Sunday, I will have something to do.

Cheers,

Fantus
Dec 08, 2010 incarnate link
Cool, welcome to the game, glad you're enjoying it :).
Dec 10, 2010 capricorn_tm link
Hello,

As soon Vo appeared on the store I installed it and after 8 hour of play was sold.

This is exactly the kind of game I want. I had to abandon EVE online because the complexity of the game simply was overhelming.

Now I have EVE, made usable and with the Wing Commander control set. Love it :)

I hope we'll have fun together.

See you in space!
Dec 10, 2010 yodaofborg link
See you both in space I hope, and please, do not whine when I blow you up. Instead PM me and say "Please mr.yoda, I know you are right, and everyone is a pirate. Please show me how!" or some stuff.

So like welcome to VO. Oh yeah, and on topic, it's now on the netbook remix also, but maybe you guys need to specify a minimum screen resolution or something. Trying VO on a crap Samsung NC10 was fun, and it ran OK at low settings, but it's screen is 1024x600. I know how to switch to window mode and drag it about (actually quite painful on this netbook) and you really should not be playing VO on the Acer Aspire One A110, it's just shit.
Jan 29, 2011 Skexin link
Ok...so I found VO in a thread online about linux compatible games. I immediately tried to download and install and failed miserably after about 1.5 hours of messing with it. I finally gave up and Dual booted windows, installed it there, and tried it out. I like it, but I'd love to be able to get it to work with my Ubuntu, as that is my primary OS. Its not in my Ubuntu Software Center...but I guess thats because i'm running 9.10.
Jan 29, 2011 incarnate link
The Ubuntu 10.10 software center install is completely different from our normal Linux package. So it might be simpler for you to get working. But, ultimately, getting the game to work on Linux is mostly about getting Linux to play nice with your OpenGL/videocard setup.