Valve Looking to Port Games to Linux?

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 14, 2007 @01:28AM from the crazy-day-in-my-neighborhood dept.

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.

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Re:It could be server software by Joe+Jay+Bee · 2007-09-14 04:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Dell seems to think there's money in it. Businesses don't do things unless there's a market for them, or at least a reasonable return on investment.

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