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Valve Looking to Port Games to Linux?
Martin Bozic writes "Valve is apparently looking for senior engineers to port games to Linux. They have an ad up on the official site looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in 'systems engineering designing and developing communications software and hardware solutions including resolving problems surrounding real-time and non real time PC- based systems using C++ and network programming algorithms and their interaction with physical devices.' One of the lines under the job description is the simple statement: 'Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform.'" No reason to get excited about this before they make an official announcement; while this may eventually mean Half-Life 2 running under Linux, they may just want penguin-based folks to play Peggle.
They've already ported it to the PS3, so why not port it to another, more successful gaming platform? I mean, it's not like it can be any harder than the PS3 port, and it's likely to pull in more sales anyway.
I wonder if this means Steam under Linux?
Linux is already known to have a few rootkits available, so they will save on recoding.
No, they don't have to release the source. Reminds me of back in the day when I had a large farm of apache servers and a M$ salesman told me if I was running Linux I had to release to source code to my website.
"...a M$ salesman told me if I was running Linux I had to release to source code to my website."
Did you show him the view source button on your browser?