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Left 4 Dead Demo Includes Linux Steam Client Libraries

Posted by Soulskill on from the fun-little-surprise dept.

SheeEttin writes "If you've been longing to play games from Steam on your Linux machine, you may not have to wait much longer — the Left 4 Dead demo includes some Linux libraries, in particular, one named 'steamclient_linux.so.' While the game's full release does not include these libraries, their apparently accidental inclusion in the demo suggests that Steam games will have native Linux clients in the near future. (A job listing at Valve looking for someone whose responsibilities would include 'Port[ing] Windows-based games to the Linux platform' would seem to support this.) The libraries also include several strings nonessential to a pure server, including references to forgotten passwords. Hopefully, this indicates that at least some Valve-affiliated games will have native Linux clients."

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  1. Just in time by kbrasee · · Score: 5, Funny

    for the Year Of The Linux Desktop.

  2. How about OS X? by MobyDisk · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if this means they will provide OS X support as well?

    1. Re:How about OS X? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You somehow got modded "informative". How very strange. That wasn't informative at all. We already know the sad little troll is a waste of valuable proteins and space. ;-)

  3. Not much longer... by spydabyte · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just a few more years?
    If they're still looking to hire, I doubt this would be anytime soon. It is valve we're talking about here.
    Let me know when they publicly announce it.

  4. Re:Hold your horses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone from the year 2000 called to let you know about this great new technology that was just invented called "BURN-Proof". It means that buffer underruns don't result in unusable discs anymore! WOW!!!