Thank for the speculations and reiterations of those speculations. I was unaware of how small the development team was for LFS, apparently one person, and like I said above, I forgot how small the LFS community is compared to other multiplayer games. With that said, I may agree that a Linux dedicated server would have nominal advantages and have only a small numbers of users. I also understand how much time it would take to develop a Linux dedicated server as well as maintaining it to match the Windows dedicated server.

Despite ignoring my request for unofficial statements, I appreciate the information provided and it all sounds logical so I no longer desire an official statement.

Again, thank you for your time in posting your responses. See you on the track(s).

We're not talking about running or playing games on Linux at all. We're talking about running a dedicated server which video drivers are irrelevant for.

I understand that Wine is an option, I just wanted to know why they haven't created an actual Linux build. Wine is a work around, not a solution.

Quote from obsolum :

If you don't want people replying to your topic you shouldn't start one on a forum. If you're only interested in hearing an "official" statement you could just send an email to one of the developers

I disagree. It needs to be on the forum so that if an official statement is made, everyone can see the reason(s) why. If I don't want people replying to the topic, I'll put a statement in my post to say so, as I did. Of course I knew it wouldn't be respected, but that's OK.

As far as the reason mentioned above, "devs not using Linux", that is a poor reason.

I've thought about the issue some more after posting this thread and realized that the player community for this game is quite small so making a Linux server build may not increase the number of servers/players as I originally thought. So to answer the question above, "Why do we need a Linux server build", I really don't have an answer.

I've seen a lot of games and mods for games come out that don't support *Unix and they usually die mostly because of the lack of Windows server hosts. *Unix platforms are arguably the standard for hosting game servers amongst other server applications and play a major role in the amount of servers that exist for games.

Lastly, I wanted an official post to get a better understanding as to why they didn't decide to develop a *Unix server build. Is it because they didn't see an advantage in doing so or are there other reasons?

Yes, I am on a Windows client.

I downloaded Xming X Server and am using Putty as my SSH client. Not sure what to do from here though.

I noticed that when using "wine LFS.exe /cfg=server.cfg" to run the LFS server, I get a different error:
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory

How can I forward the X display to my machine? And, I've tried wineconsole and just wine, both do the same. Also, I am doing everything through SSH to my remote box.

I am a novice when it comes to Linux so I just need a little further explaining.

I'm trying to run LFS on Linux using wine. This is the error I get:

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
err:wineconsole:WINECON_Fatal Couldn't find a decent font, aborting

Also, I have the following line in my config file:
/dedicated=invisible

Lastly, the command I am running is:
wineconsole LFS.exe /cfg=setup.cfg

I am using the above command temporarily so I can see the error that the server gives me. Please advise.

Can an official statement be made as to why there has not been an official dedicated server release for Linux? This game has been out for years but yet still no official linux server build. I understand that Wine may be able to be used but why should one need to use Wine?

Thanks in advance.

PS: Please no unofficial comments until an official statement has been made by someone that works for LFS that knows that reason.

G25 sounds good to me.

Just out of curiosity, why would you need to hit the gas and the brake at the same time? What else would you do that for other than a burnout?

What are some good wheel and pedal sets (with clutch) for a PC? I've looked but would rather have some reviews from people that currently own nice sets. Thanks in advance!

Sounds good. I'm sure I would have tons of fun with the game so I will probably buy it soon.

Thanks for all the info.

And yea, I have been a member since 2005 but only have played the LFS demo(s) here and there. I love the game though and have a lot of fun playing just the demo so I can only imagine how much fun it will be with all of the other tracks and cars in a full copy.

What kind of time frame are we talking about before S3?

If I buy an LFS S2 license, am I entitled to all future LFS releases for no extra charge?