
After all, it’s normal: Arch is a rolling distro and you get the most recent packages for everything right?Įxcept that no, 1.10.3-2 is not the latest version. How about on Arch? Presently, you would be on one of the most recent versions, 1.10.3-2. So on Debian stable you end up with OpenTTD 1.08 as the most recent version. Debian stable tends to have really old packages, sometimes years behind their latest versions. In practice however, it’s far from being something you can rely on, beyond security updates.


In theory, this is the BEST way to keep your packages up to date. If you have ever played OpenTTD on Linux, let me venture that you have probably relied on your distro’s package manager to keep your game up-to-date. The team behind the project decided to release the game on Steam (still free as always) and this has changed everything. OpenTTD, the free and open-source software recreation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, has been a popular game for a long time, but recently something unusual happened.
