New version of excavator is very very near, be prepared.
No more old way of giving commands over command line; get ready for true commanding over API and out of the box dual/trippe/etc mining, OpenCL support and new algorithms. We also prepared a way to run the miner standalone by writing a big "config/commanding" file that is very powerful when it comes to commanding miner as it supports everything API has. However, it will still be just an alpha version.
Maybe there will be a LINUX binary at last...
I was just assigned to a Linux port a few days ago.
I'm planning to prepare binaries for Ubuntu first.