LF2 v2.0a available on Linux and Mac

[MangaD]

Earlier it wasn't available for them?
It used some third party configuration or what?

Unix-like operating systems (eg. Linux and Mac) do not run DOS-like operating systems' (eg. Microsoft Windows) executable files by default.

First let me introduce some concepts:

1. Wine (recursive acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a free and open source compatibility layer software application that aims to allow applications designed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.
   
2. winetricks is a helper script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries needed to run some programs in Wine.
   

So, to play LF2 in Linux/Mac, we need Wine and winetricks (Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86), etc) as I explain in this thread. But as you can see, this is a somewhat tedious process for installing a game and not everyone knows about it (they have to google and find my thread, or investigate the issues themselves ).

And because there are many more programs that are "difficult" to install with Wine+winetricks, due to their specific requisites, PlayOnLinux/Mac was born to ease the process. All users need to do to install a game with PlayOnLinux/Mac is search it on the list, if it exists (ie. if someone put it there), and install it normally (click next, next...). But of course, each program is different and has different dependencies, therefore the install process is different for each, and so contributors have to write scripts for POL/POM to install the software they want. If nobody contributes with a certain software, it simply won't be available. In this case I was the contributor.

Here are some pics: