Great work, multiplayer makes glest finally the best free RTS alvailable.
I tried alpha2 from svn on my GNU/Linux system and it worked. I had to change utopia to helvetica and to add the network relatey stuff to the ini-file and then it worked. There's just one issue remaining: The glest process wont termitnate. I run glest in a terminal simulation and it stays alive until I send the TERM-Signal manually.