Ubuntu Summit Doom takes place on Mars, but up until recently, it has only been played on Earth. However, at the Ubuntu Summit, one enterprising developer explained how he extended the well-established "will it run Doom?" meme all the way into space.

When it was first introduced, id Software's Doom demanded a fairly capable 486 PC, and its ability to offer head-to-head play over an IPX/SPX LAN was radical – and brought down a few such networks. By 2011 The Register did a twentieth anniversary retrospective , long enough ago that it was followed by others when it turned 25 and again for its 30th anniversary .

Doom's longevity comes partly because, back in 1997, id released its source code , leading to lots of ports and revivals. For instance, there's a C++ version of Doom , whose relevanc

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