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More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the come-on-valve-spill-the-beans dept.

SheeEttin writes "Back in November 2008, Phoronix reported that Linux libraries appeared in the Left 4 Dead demo, and then in March, Valve announced that Steam and the Source engine were coming to Mac OS X. Now, Phoronix reports that launcher scripts included with the (closed beta) Mac version of Steam include explicit support for launching a Linux version."

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  1. Steam on Linux by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is an indication of support for the Steam distribution platform, and some Valve games on Linux. Good luck getting EA to build Linux binaries for their games, because Steam doesn't do that for you.

    Good on Valve for going this way, and maybe it's the push big publishers need to start telling devs to create native Linux binaries, but don't think for a moment that that this means all Steam games will run natively on Linux.

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  2. Insufficient data for meaningful answer by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This could be an ancient script cut-and-pasted to suit. Heck, I've still got a Makefile that has a section for Ultrix but it doesn't mean that it works or that I'm supporting it.

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  3. Re:DRM by imakemusic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Valve: Bringing gaming to Linux. (And I don't care how much you think it can't be tolerated, it's still great and wonderful and I will continue to use it.)

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  4. Re:Too Stupid To Handel Modern Graphics Hardware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isnt the "modern graphics hardware" inside the PS3 already outdated? How then can it be modern.