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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. Come one, Phoronix? Seriously? by Loibisch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Who still believes any of the stuff they're writing?

    Those libraries are used by the Linux SERVER, so they can pull updates over Steam. Yes, Steam in Linux...shocking, ain't it? That says absolutely zip about game capability.

    Phoronix sees a handful of .so files and weaves a huge story about any Source games are just around the corner for Linux.

    There's absolutely _nothing_ noteworthy about this...