Well that was faster than expected. Tomorrow's EVE Online patch will be introducing the Linux/Mac OS client announced in September, along with several other goodies for the Revelations 2.3 patch. The EVE Online Insider has all the details on the patch, but you can also read the notes below.

Patch Notes for Revelations 2.3
As announced in Hellmar's Fanfest Keynote presentation, CCP has teamed with Transgaming to provide additional operating system support for the EVE client. EVE will now run on Mac OS X and Linux. For further information, please see this news item. Also, a new section concerning the new operating system support will be added to the Frequently Asked Questions on Monday.

Other changes are:

• Several 'Need for Speed' code optimizations have been added to the client.
• The newly supported Linux and Macintosh operating systems can now be specified when submitting technical petitions.
• If an office's rent expires while a BP is in production and is not re-rented before the job is completed, the BP's will return to the impound.
• The wallet mouseover display will update correctly on balance change.
• A rare error that prevented a recently podded player from opening their wallet has been resolved.
• An exception occuring upon client resize has been resolved.
• A number of drop down menu now have larger boxes.
• A number of minor Unicode errors in right click menus have been resolved.
• Various fixes and enhancements have been added to our billing and petition systems, as well as to GM tools.

• Several unused or outdated DLLs/binaries have been removed from the client.

Important Note: If you receive an error message when starting the EVE client claiming the existance of illegal files in your bin folder, it will be necessary to manually remove them.

The following are the valid DLLs/binaries that should remain in the EVE client's bin folder:

• Folder: Microsoft.VC80.CRT
  • Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest
  • msvcm80.dll
  • msvcp80.dll
  • msvcr80.dll
• _ctypes.pyd
• _PyFreeTypeP.dll
• _trinity.dll
• alut.dll
• audio.dll
• blue.dll
• boost_python.dll
• chartdir.dll
• db.dll
• dbghelp.dll
• destiny.dll
• ExeFile.exe
• NetClient.dll
• NetUtil.dll
• ortp.dll
• pyexpat.pyd
• python25.dll
• RedistD3DXOnly.exe
• vivoxsdk.dll
• wrap_oal.dll

• The following Alliance logos have been added or updated:
  • Daisho Syndicate
  • Dune Heretics
  • YouWhat
  • BORTHER'S WORD
  • Space Weaponry and Trade
  • The Immortality Project
  • Blue Sky Consortium
  • FreeFall Securities
  • The Order of the Red Locust
  • Dark Taboo
  • National Capital Region
  • Angelus Errere - Where angels lose their way
  • Order of Khaos
  • Friend or Enemy
  • Brethren of The Sky
  • The Covenant Alliance
  • Shinra Alliance
  • Sev3rance
  • KIA Alliance
  • Cold Fusion Syndicate
  • Ethereal Dawn
  • Abyss Alliance
  • Division of Eden
  • Minuit.
  • Acid Alliance
  • Deus Ex.
  • INTERDICTION
  • Daem Exalter Oni Noegene
  • The Gurlstas Associates
  • C0VEN
  • N O V A