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Timothée Besset is a French software programmer, (also known as TTimo), best known for supporting Linux, as well as some Macintosh, ports of id Software's products. He has been involved with the game ports of various id properties over the past ten years, starting with ''Quake III Arena''.〔(JeuxLinux, Entretien avec Timothée Besset )〕 Since the development of ''Doom 3'' he was also in charge of the multiplayer network code and various aspects of game coding for id,〔(Network Performance Daily, ID Software Developer Timothee Besset on Network Performance in Games )〕 a role which had him heavily involved in the development of their online game ''QuakeLive''. He has been occasionally called "zerowing", but he has never gone by that name himself. It is derived from the community oriented system zerowing.idsoftware.com, of which the Linux port pages are the most prominent. The system was actually named by Christian Antkow based on the Zero Wing meme.〔(Piga Software Forum, Piga Software Congratulates... )〕 == Life and career == Besset grew up in France, and started programming in the early 1990s. In school he majored in computer science, as well as pursuing courses in chemistry, mechanics, and fluid mechanics. Through school he was also first introduced to Linux, originally only for system administration and networking, and eventually adopting it for his main system. His first serious game development project was working on ''QERadiant'', a free game editor tool for id Software games. Through his work on the editor he got to know Robert Duffy, who was at that point working as a contractor for id. After he got hired full-time, Duffy managed to secure Timothee a contract to work on the new cross-platform ''GtkRadiant'' editor project in 2000.〔(Interview with id Software's Timothee Besset ) LinuxGames, August 22, 2004〕 This eventually led to Timothee being hired to become id's official Linux port maintainer after they took back the support rights to the Linux release of ''Quake III Arena'' from the then floundering Loki Software.〔(Linux Quake III Arena Update ) Blues's News, May 22, 2001〕〔(Quake 3 Arena takes Linux by force ) LinuxWorld, December 3, 2001〕 His first actual porting project came with the release of ''Return to Castle Wolfenstein'' in 2001, with the Linux client being released on March 16, 2002.〔(Quakecon Interview With Timothee Besset ) LinuxGames, Aug 23, 2002〕〔(On Wolf's Goldness ) Blue's News, November 15, 2001〕〔(Wolfenstein Patch Clarifications ) Inside Mac Games, August 27, 2002 (Article by Andy Largent)〕 This was followed about a year later by the release of ''Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory'', with the Linux builds sharing the same release date as the Windows release. His next porting work came with the release of ''Doom 3'', with him releasing the first Linux builds on October 4, 2004.〔(DOOM III for GNU/Linux Released ) LinuxHardware.org, October 05, 2004〕〔(Doom3 Linux and Windows Battlegrounds ) Anand Tech, October 13, 2004 (Article by Kristopher Kubicki)〕〔(Doom 3 Linux Performance Analyzed ) LinuxHardware.org, October 12, 2004〕 Around this time he also assumed the responsibility of becoming in charge of network coding for id.〔 On October 20, 2005 he released the Linux binaries for ''Quake 4''.〔(id Software Quake 4 ) Phoronix, October 20, 2005〕〔(Quake 4 and Serious Sam 2 for Linux ) jeuxvideo.fr, October 3, 2005〕 This was followed by him releasing the source code for ''GtkRadiant'' under the GNU General Public License on February 17, 2006.〔(GPL GtkRadiant ) Blue's News, February 17, 2006〕〔(Herné novinky & zaujímavosti 5 ) LinuxExpres, October 8, 2006 (Article by linuxexpres in Czech)〕 His next porting project was porting ''Enemy Territory: Quake Wars'', with Linux binaries being released on October 19, 2007.〔(ET: Quake Wars Linux Client Released ) Phoronix, October 19, 2007〕〔(Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Mac Version Confirmed? ) Inside Mac Games, April 23, 2007 (Article by Cord Kruse)〕〔(Linux version of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars comes ) Pro-Linux.de, June 28, 2007 (Article by Mirko Lindner)〕 He also worked on the ''Quake Live'' project, with the game entering an invitation-based closed beta in 2008 and an open beta on February 24, 2009, with Linux and Macintosh support coming on August 18, 2009.〔(Quake Live Now Available To Linux Gamers ) Phoronix, August 19, 2009〕 In response to fears by some in the Linux gaming community that id would abandon Linux with its future titles, on September 13, 2009 in a well publicized statement he reaffirmed id's support of Linux, stating in his blog that "Fundamentally nothing has changed with our policy regarding Linux games... I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done".〔(Rage and other Tech5 games might be Linux-friendly ) Neoseeker, September 14, 2009〕〔(Kommender Id-Titel Rage auch für Linux ? ) PC Games Hardware, September 17, 2009〕〔(Rage probablement sous Linux ) NoFrag, September 15, 2009〕 In January 2012, Besset resigned from id Software, ending hope for future Linux builds (though ''Doom 3 BFG Edition'' came to Linux via source port).〔(Onwards ! ), ''TTimo's blog'', January 26, 2012〕 A year later John Carmack revealed that ZeniMax "doesn't have any policy of 'unofficial binaries'", and so prevented id Software from pursuing any sort of third-party builds as it had in the past, be it Linux ports or experimental releases, and he then suggested the use of Wine instead. On July 2, 2012, he was announced to have joined Frozen Sand, which is currently developing Urban Terror HD.〔(Code Wizard TTimo joins Frozen Sand )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timothee Besset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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