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There's a readme included with the source; it's geared toward GNU/Linux and especially Ubuntu, but it should be possible to figure out how to do it; the main difference is going to be how you install the dependencies. You need cmake, make, and the libraries Minetest uses. You can get an idea of the ...

Have you tried compiling? OS X is a POSIX system, so it shouldn't be too complicated.

But if minetest doesnt use a single line of code from minecraft, how can they claim "copyright" ? You'd be surprised what kind of crap you can get away with if you have enough money. A few years ago, the Tetris Troll convinced a U.S. district court that things like the shapes of the pieces and the ...

These comments seem to confuse copyright with patents. You can remake the chair, but not if it's patented. There are three types of 'copyright', commonly used. Copyright - things you make. Is: written works, music, games, art. Patents - design of things Trademarks - names, logos. Not quite. Designs...

Can someone CARE to PROVE that the game "is not ready" ? I already did: it doesn't have mobs. We've already seen Minecraft players reject Minetest for this reason. It doesn't matter that Minecraft isn't on Steam; everyone knows about it. Minecraft doesn't need Steam to attract an audience. It's not...

If you wanted to really buy a song, it could cost you thousands of pounds/dollars/etc. Instead you buy A COPY of the song. You don't own the song; you can't give copies to your friends. Information isn't "owned"; only copies are owned. Copyright monopolies, however, are owned. Copyright monopolies ...

If you buy a film, or a game, or a piece of music, you never own it. You own THE LICENSE TO USE IT. Minecraft is no different in this. That's true of proprietary software, but not true of music, films, and video games that aren't downloaded through the Internet. You buy a copy. A license isn't need...

more players = more developers. simple as that. Reality is much more complicated than that. The guys who coined the term "open source" have been claiming ever since then that free/libre and open source projects tend to involve massive collaboration, but this is usually wrong: http://media.libreplan...

I don't know much about the Steam community, but my guess is Minetest isn't ready for that audience. I'm sure a lot of them would compare it to Minecraft in a negative way: no mobs, not as many servers, a lot of servers being slow, etc. I don't imagine they would experiment very much with mods, eith...

gtkRecordMyDesktop sucks. SimpleScreenRecorder is excellent. There is no comparison between these two, and SimpleScreenRecorder is easily the best screen recording program for X right now. (For the record, the command-line recordMyDesktop program is fine, but I prefer a graphical interface.)

Actually, I can think of only one change for realism I would be in favor of: make the player float, rather than sink, in the water. Realistic for most humans (unless you're particularly muscular and skinny, you will naturally float), but I think it would be better in particular because swimming is a...

Awesome! Thanks for this, Casimir!

The PPA hasn't been updated to 0.4.9. Even if it had been, PPAs only work on Ubuntu, not Debian.

look the internet for winrar No, no, no. If you're a Windows user, use 7-zip and nothing else. If you're on OS X, use The Unarchiver. If you're on any other system, use unar (command-line version of The Unarchiver) for RAR files and whatever archiver you got with the OS for everything else. RAR fil...

I don't get why people call the Ouya an "open source" console. Its developers don't champion open source in any way and most of the software on it is not open source. The Ouya developers never even called it "open source"; they called it " open ". Their use of "open" also applies to Windows. They're...

Damn, I think we are getting into something similar to the flightgear scam here. http://www.flightgear.org/flightprosim.html Time we made a page similar to the FG one here. It's good that some people are double-checking before purchasing, but I worry about those that didn't. Time we sent a letter t...

Worldcraft/buildcraft was illegally posted. It does not follow the share-alike clause of the Minetest license. Someone pointed out that Minetest is under the GNU LGPL, and the publisher of the Android Minetest circumvented copyleft by technically making a compatibility layer that loads Minetest lik...

EDIT: If you dislike the new interface, just go with Xubuntu. it's still Ubuntu but with a somewhat lighter choice of things installed by default (including not having that annoying "system menu" as I call it as I hate to have to use searching to find an app in a menu) 11.10 uses Unity, too. It was...

Ubuntu 11.10 reached end-of-life nearly 7 months ago. If you're still using it, your system is insecure.

I couldn't say what the oldest supported version of OpenGL is on Ubuntu 12.04 since I don't really understand the packages, but what do you need OpenGL 1.3 or prior for, anyway?

Well, it's concerning that a U.S. district court ruled that a Tetris clone infringed the Tetris Troll's copyright because it used the same shapes and had the same grid size . But that kind of ridiculously loose application of copyright can already be used to allow Mojang to sue Minetest, because it ...

Heck, you can't compare two computers that have different x86 processors so simply. There's more to how fast a CPU is than clock rate, and there's more to how well Minetest will run than CPU speed.

I wouldn't agree with "preferably mediafire", because that site uses a lot of gratuitous Javascript code for both uploading and downloading that is presumably proprietary. But anyway, there are tons of file hosting sites; the one kind of place to definitely keep out of is those sites that have wait ...

"Public property" isn't a valid legal term pertaining to copyright. Works which aren't copyrighted are "public domain ". Sorry if I sound nitpicky, but the term "public property" has no legal significance in copyright, so because you didn't explain what you meant, despite your intentions, the legal ...

Don't worry about what you have if it's 12.04; the adware feature was introduced in 12.10, but when it's time to upgrade, try something else. It's not a security thing (though the EFF did report that it's possible, because of how it's done, for snoopers to infer what you're searching for every time ...

Zorin is based on Ubuntu's stable releases, so it would have worked with the Ubuntu packages. Personally, because your local searches are reported to Canonical (and used to display Amazon ads) by default[0] (even though you can turn this behavior off), I recommend not using or recommending Ubuntu, o...

Yeah, that should be fixed. Wooden axe is useless. I didn't know that the wooden axe is slower than the hand, but yeah, it should be faster than it is now. What's the problem with having diamond more powerful than MESE's previous strength? All it means is that people with a diamond pick can mine eve...

So I was just wondering if it matters what distro I downlaod it for? Wont it work with any Linux OS??? Yes, it matters. The only two things all GNU/Linux distros necessarily have in common are GNU (userland, core libraries, and other core OS stuff) and Linux (the kernel; the part that talks to the ...

I find it really annoying that this instantly breaks many tools when you use them on the wrong thing. I was annoyed when I lost a perfectly good diamond sword because I was wielding it while I picked up a torch, and I've lost a compass from another mod more than once because of it. (It's not whateve...

Shouldn't it be enough that he's sharing his mods? No. Proprietary software isn't a contribution... as you should already know. Are you trying to make this into an argument about free software? I just brought it up because I figured Ragnar might be ignorant of noncommercial licenses being proprieta...

I'm not interested in it anyway, but I wouldn't play this unless you took that "NC" clause off of the code, at least (and frankly, software shouldn't be put under Creative Commons licenses in the first place; those licenses are meant for cultural works, not software). please don't proselytize. Pros...

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