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Valve's Steam & Games Coming To Linux

Posted by samzenpus on from the time-to-play dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Valve's Steam and Source Engine-based games are coming to Linux. Michael from well known site Phoronix.com has been invited to Valve's office and was able to spend a day with the developers and Gabe Newell himself. He is confirming the rumors about Linux ports from Valve, and has been able to play the games and work the developers himself. Attached in the article are pictures from Valve's offices with games running on Linux."

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  1. Dupe by Poeli · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seriously, one the same day: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/04/25/1241241/phoronix-confirms-gnulinux-steam-and-source-engine-clients

  2. I think this is great! by octaene · · Score: 3, Informative

    I already play Valve games on my Linux computer using PlayOnLinux (http://www.playonlinux.com/). That's been very stable for me, but I'm hoping that a native Valve client will allow even better system performance while gaming.

  3. Re:Title a bit misleading by gumpish · · Score: 5, Informative

    Valve is porting Steam and Source to linux right now. Not half-life, not Portal, not TF2, not Counter Strike. Source is just an engine. Steam is a distribution medium.

    TFA shows Valve dev workstations running L4D2 under Linux.

  4. Re:Juts what the open source community wants... by HeckRuler · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can play games offline.

    Except when you can't. I've had a handful of times when steam wants to connect even when I tell it to play offline. And it refuses to do anything else. It has pissed me right the hell off each time. That's DRM getting between me and what I paid for.
    Steam is a pretty good distribution system. And Valve has a lot of sales which make it enticing. But as far as DRM goes, it's still too much.

  5. Just in time... by aztektum · · Score: 3, Informative

    What good timing. There just happen to be a bunch of Kickstarter projects that will need a way to distribute their promised Linux clients.

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