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> How about doing it with a Steam download that runs on _any_ modern Linux?

Use alien to turn the deb package into a simple tarball.

Then use ldd to see what libraries you are missing.

There's no magic in this sort of thing: Lay down some files. Then lay down some more files to make sure the first set works. Perhaps throw up some advertising and a progress bar.

Chances are that "modern" Linuxen are already going to have what Steam needs since Linuxen are all ultimately the same upstream projects repackaged.

I can't run in on Mageia2 because it insists on glibc_2.15 and all Mageia provides is libc_2.14. Mageia 3 will provide libc_2.17 at least, so that won't be an issue and I've run it in the Mageia beta, so that again is not an issue. I suppose I could compile glibc_2.15 for Mageia2, but what magic does 2.15 provide that 2.14 does not that is needed by Steam? And needing complicated, user-unfriendly methods of running Steam on any modern Linux is not the way to make it a breakthrough product. This is also not about my "Linux skills". http://socuteurl.com/buzzycuddlefrog

My complaint is not that it can't be _made_ to run on other distros (it obviously can), but it shouldn't _need_ to be if they want to call it "Steam for Linux". Their internal debate is about their problem of supporting so many different packaging systems and making the distro install all the required-by-Steam versions of libraries. They resist providing their own libraries because of some assumed fear of "bloatware", but that approach would give them more control and better performance. I suspect it's more of an understandable desire to push some of the library support issues onto the distro itself. And I understand why they cannot statically compile proprietary software with FOSS libraries. They need to divorce themselves from any reliance on _any_distro if they want to call it "Steam for Linux". Because otherwise, it's not and it's not the breakthrough they claim it to be.

They should still be able to make their URLs cute.

I'm sure http://www.socuteurl.com/ will still work.

A happy face

http://socuteurl.com/cutesybutt. Yeah, that's what it is, after all!

And this one is quite as well, maybe a little bit too obvious:
http://socuteurl.com/gooseygoopoo

poofyfuzzbutt, hehe... how fitting!

So in other words the CLI gives you mystical gonad powers? It would be a different story if you'd said, ohhh, the data we are processing needs every scrap of power we can throw at it so I don't want the overhead, or we want this thing pulling absolute least watts when not in use so we don't want a GUI using the GPU, but when you trot out that "real control" BS with nothing to back it up? smells a little like BS from here.

As for TFA? MSFT standing between your company and patent trolls ain't cheap, and with all the lawsuits and trolls I'd feel safer letting MSFT take the bullet over my company. FOSS is great if you are just gonna use it internally, but if some SCO style patent troll comes after you is the FSF gonna pay your lawyer fees? While personally I'd prefer software patents to go the way of the 8-track, as long as they exist you are gonna have to worry about getting hit by one. With these court cases taking damn near a decade, as another said its like insurance. How many corps other than the big boys like Google, MSFT, and Apple, can afford to pay top notch lawyers for a decade, maybe more counting appeals?

So in other words the CLI gives you mystical gonad powers? It would be a different story if you'd said, ohhh, the data we are processing needs every scrap of power we can throw at it so I don't want the overhead, or we want this thing pulling absolute least watts when not in use so we don't want a GUI using the GPU, but when you trot out that "real control" BS with nothing to back it up? smells a little like BS from here.

As for TFA? MSFT standing between your company and patent trolls ain't cheap, and with all the lawsuits and trolls I'd feel safer letting MSFT take the bullet over my company. FOSS is great if you are just gonna use it internally, but if some SCO style patent troll comes after you is the FSF gonna pay your lawyer fees? While personally I'd prefer software patents to go the way of the 8-track, as long as they exist you are gonna have to worry about getting hit by one. With these court cases taking damn near a decade, as another said its like insurance. How many corps other than the big boys like Google, MSFT, and Apple, can afford to pay top notch lawyers for a decade, maybe more counting appeals?

As in "let's do some bubbybinky tonight...". How fitting!

I've always preferred SoCuteURL. It makes URL's that are sometimes short, sometimes long, but always a lot easier to retype (say, from a text message) than a computer-generated hash. For example, I've got a better chance of telling someone how to type in socuteurl.com/yappypupperpig (so cute u r l dot com slash yappy pupper pig) than I do goo.gl slash anything.

Of course, I also have a soft spot in my heart for http://urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/ -- but they refuse to "shorten" http://goo.gl/ for me, saying "This URL has been rejected to prevent the universe from collapsing on itself."

I've always preferred SoCuteURL. It makes URL's that are sometimes short, sometimes long, but always a lot easier to retype (say, from a text message) than a computer-generated hash. For example, I've got a better chance of telling someone how to type in socuteurl.com/yappypupperpig (so cute u r l dot com slash yappy pupper pig) than I do goo.gl slash anything.

Of course, I also have a soft spot in my heart for http://urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/ -- but they refuse to "shorten" http://goo.gl/ for me, saying "This URL has been rejected to prevent the universe from collapsing on itself."

A link to the User Manual, I believe.

http://preview.socuteurl.com/wuvvywiddlecuddlefish

As usual, the "popular" kids ruin it for the rest.

And now you can get social diseases from social networking sites.

http://www.socuteurl.com/twitterbun

http://www.simonprice.org/tomb.html
This is the first graphics/text adventure game I played on the PC. You can download it at no charge from the author at the above link.
Review at http://www.socuteurl.com/pandafairyflop

I also liked "Time to Die" aka "Borrowed Time" a hard-boiled detective adventure at http://www.socuteurl.com/pineapplemonkey

That also links to a great site for old games.

Then I got Doom and Carmageddon and those types of games have been my preference ever since (plus Postal2, COD, MOH).

http://www.simonprice.org/tomb.html
This is the first graphics/text adventure game I played on the PC. You can download it at no charge from the author at the above link.
Review at http://www.socuteurl.com/pandafairyflop

I also liked "Time to Die" aka "Borrowed Time" a hard-boiled detective adventure at http://www.socuteurl.com/pineapplemonkey

That also links to a great site for old games.

Then I got Doom and Carmageddon and those types of games have been my preference ever since (plus Postal2, COD, MOH).

Personally, I really like a 1972 Blazer...with a manual transmission. Minimal plastic, no electronics beyond the turn signal module, fix it myself and I can start it with a bit of a downhill run.

I drive this a lot: 1937 Plymouth business coupe, Corvette LT-1 powered. Emissions-legal and easy to work on. Plus, people let me have the good parking spaces. http://www.socuteurl.com/tinyfuzzbutterbug

Call me old fashioned, but I like to see where a link is going before I click it.

Even if it's so cute?

Indeed. I'm not giving up my SoCuteUrl; the links come out a bit longer, but oh so lovely! For example, who would not prefer http://www.socuteurl.com/coozzypumpkins over http://www.ExpertSexChange.com?

Indeed. I'm not giving up my SoCuteUrl; the links come out a bit longer, but oh so lovely! For example, who would not prefer http://www.socuteurl.com/coozzypumpkins over http://www.ExpertSexChange.com?

Cool, now you can get your OH JOHN RINGO NO goodness at http://www.socuteurl.com/cheekyfuzzydoo

My heart is about to explode from the cuteness.

I'm not a nig fan of url shortening services, but sometimes it makes sense.

Sometimes I just want to send a link to my friends with my dumb phone. The problem is that I don't want to type the whole stupid url and I don't want my friends to ask me if it's an Oh or a Zero. In that case, SocuteURL rocks!

Testing out your signature linking software...

Link to this article

That is all.

I prefer www.socuteurl.com. It's just, irresistable. There. I said it. I've made the first step toward recovery.

Or one girl shared between three pterodactyls Not only is this not safe for work, it's not safe for anyone.

I can search adult and gay material fine and all titles I checked appear in the sales rank.

I can search adult and gay material fine and all titles I checked appear in the sales rank.

http://www.socuteurl.com/bubbybinky
http://www.socuteurl.com/tumblybuggles

http://www.socuteurl.com/bubbybinky
http://www.socuteurl.com/tumblybuggles

Your link is wonderful. And indeed, as their page claims, even very ugly URLs become cute. This is really a web-transforming technology...

http://www.socuteurl.com/tuffyboobeans

Awww.

There's also hiding links to shock sites.

what?

My favorite and most appropriately "cute-ized" page http://www.socuteurl.com/foo

Great.
http://www.socuteurl.com/hihicutieboo

Longer URLs introduce the problem of homophones

Like this?

http://www.socuteurl.com/squeakers ahhh so cute

What value are these new URLs if they aren't cute?!?

Seth

Smiley Already Used as Harbinger of Doom http://www.socuteurl.com/waddlypuppet

Wildly OT, but following your homepage/sig link (your site?) and putting in my comments page address gives http://socuteurl.com/fuzzybutt

Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

*Offtopic*

i must have extremely good (bad?) luck, because now http://socuteurl.com/foo points to slashdot.org

>_>

what are the chances?