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Hello everyone

To make things clear before I start blogging about Unreal Engine 4 and Linux. I am not working at Epic.  All things I am going to write in this Blog are my personal thoughts and experiences and developments. Everything I do for the Unreal Engine 4 at the moment is doing it as a community developer. That means, everything I say and do is absolutely nothing official
In my free time I do all sorts of things and one is programming. My preferred  OS for entertainment, gaming and programming is GNU/Linux  (GNUX) using the Xfce WM.
My job forces me to work on different platforms, mainly GNUX, Mac and Windows.
After I read the news that Epic was giving the source code of the Unreal Engine 4 to their subscribers I was quite surprised and happy that someday the tools could run on my preferred OS too.
I've got somehow one of the community developer (there are couple of them) for UE4 and GNUX support :D. What I do/did is trying to help get the UI (Slate) of UE4 better integrated into X11/WM world of UNIX. You might find me on the irc channel #ue4linux. Here is the wiki of who is doing what for UE4Linux form the community:


So hope you find some interesting stuff here for yourself.

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