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BeyondUnreal pointed out this post by Ryan “icculus” Gordon to theLinux UT2004 mailing list (FAQ):

We’ve already rewritten UnrealEd to use the wxWindows toolkit on Windows. The intention is to have it run on Mac, Linux, and Windows.

That’s for UnrealEngine3, though, not UT2004.

This is great news, as no previous versions of the editor have run on Linux natively.

Edit: To clarify, this is the third major iteration of the Unreal engine, for use in future Unreal-driven titles.

Edit (by jvm): I followed up with Ryan about this information. Here’s his response, in full:

Their title [of the post at BeyondUnreal] is a little misleading, but yeah. Like the quote says, it’s the intention to run on all those platforms, but no work has been done yet, and won’t be for a long time. The engine itself isn’t running on Linux and Mac at the moment, let alone the editor, but the explicit reason for the move to WxWidgets was to allow UnrealEd to go cross-platform. This is all for UnrealEngine3; the UE2 games (ut2004, etc) are still on the MFC-based editor, which won’t see a Linux version.

So, basically, if I don’t get hit by a bus before it ships, we’ll ship the editor with the game for Linux and Mac, too.

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