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.

Comments

Re:i hope not

[malevolentjelly]

In my experience developing games on the playstation 3, Linux is fine for gaming. ;) Eventually, companies will invest in better opengl implementations for linux- such as the one used by ... you know... Linux Gaming Machines. Sony has some sweet libraries for it.

Re:If they do port HL2...

[AlexMax2742]

Half Life 2 and its ilk already run reasonably well in Wine these days. All you have to do is have the Taholma font installed in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts and Steam ought to work great, and from there CS:Source works great too. I notice maybe a 10fps difference between Windows and Linux, and I have a shitty throwaway Geforce FX.