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For those of you with keen memories or an astute sense of design, you’ll notice some changes to our website. A slightly cleaner look, smaller buttons, and fewer of those buttons, will tip you off. Those of you merrily going about your way, well, we’re going to hit you over the head with it.

Thanks to those of you who have been using the first release of Hoot. We now have an update available for download. There aren't really any new features. This release is more about improving some of the little details that should make using Hoot a little more seamless. Plus, there are bug fixes that will improve the general robustness of the software.

You may have heard the Yogi Berra quote, “you’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” Product roadmaps are like that. If you only think about what’s in the next release, pretty soon you’re on a narrow, two-lane highway to the middle of nowhere. So one of the things we are keeping in mind is our ultimate goal – any game, anywhere. With that final destination over the horizon, metaphorically speaking, it’s also good to have some shorter-term results in mind.

As Shawn stated in the previous entry, any game anywhere is our motto. We are
not there yet, but, I am pleased to announce that I just installed the latest
wine (0.9.42) version and I can play pc games on my linux machine simply
installing Hoot client. Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows
API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. As a Linux enthusiast (Debian unstable)
that makes me very happy. I know it is wine and not native Linux support, but. not
promising a release date, we are working on a native port for linux.

Thank you
Yuval

Hi, welcome to Hoot. My name is Shawn Underwood and I'm one of the founders of Hoot. We appreciate you coming by to see what we're about.