What's the best Tetris clone for Linux?

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There's plenty of Tetris clones out there, but it's hard to find any that actually conform well to The Tetris Company's guidelines, probably out of fear of patent infringement. What's the best one that runs natively on Linux and feels like a "real" Tetris game?

I didn't know there were such guidelines. Can they be read somewhere?

I know it's not what you asked, but you might find Bastet (short for Bastard Tetris) interesting.

Bastet is interesting, but it's missing wall-kicks and easy spin (aka "infinite spin" by critics).

Kind of off topic but google Mario Tetris 3, its a flash game and a really good one. I have it hosted on a local server so thats what I play for Tetris. It fulfills my Tetris needs and its freaking Mario so its a win win. I also was working on a Tetris clone in C, if your interested I can work on it again and see if I can create something in the next few days.

I can post the code if you want but it didn't have any kind of anything really except a CLI menu and some cool stuff with ncurses.

This one's a lot of fun and it runs perfectly through Wine if you don't want to spend time compiling source code for the native Linux version:
http://16bitsoft.com/TC4T/TetriCrisis41 ... ITurbo.htm

I'll have to check this one out. And it's funny you mention that the Windows version works fine, because I've noticed that with a number of other open source programs too. Since the DLLs wrap almost perfectly over to their Linux equivalents, in some cases it can actually be easier to get a Windows version of a program running in WINE than the native Linux version. DosBox and PCem are two notable examples.

If there's one part of Windows program packaging philosophy I prefer over *nix systems, it's that programs will often provide their own DLLs if they need them, instead of requiring you to have the exact version they require installed on your system. It would be so much easier if Linux had a way of maintaining multiple versions of various libraries so that programs can use a newer or older version if need be.

On an aside, is anyone else running into issues with GTK font rendering under Arch? The other day I was getting tons of missing letters and it made things annoying to use, but then for about a day or so everything was fine after an update. THEN I ran another update about 20 minutes ago, and the font rendering issues are back, only this time I'm getting certain characters replaced with white squares! I think this has something to do with the updated Intel graphics drivers I installed, which changed the primary rendering system from DRI2 to DRI3. It's probably a good thing I've stuck with Manjaro on my desktop instead of switching it over to Antergos like I did on my laptop. Antergos certainly runs a lot better on here overall, but it does have a few annoying issues from it being more bleeding-edge and closer to mainline Arch.