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:IF, just, IF by Goaway · 2007-09-14 02:31 · Score: 1, Troll

Nowadays, it isn't too hard anymore to create binaries that will work on most recent mainstream distros. Funny how "nowadays" a problem that no other OS but Linux has ever had is not so bad anymore. Still there, mind you, just not as bad.
Re:IF, just, IF by QuantumG · 2007-09-14 02:35 · Score: 0, Troll

You can be almost guaranteed that Steam would be a binary release, and there's nothing wrong with that. Except for all the usual reasons about source code being a prerequisite for software freedom.

Other than that, yeah, nothing wrong with it at all.

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Re:IF, just, IF by QuantumG · 2007-09-14 04:29 · Score: 0, Troll

You should go into politics or something.

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