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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. Re:Steam Box OS is Linux? by GuerillaRadio · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Shuttleworth recently said the target for Ubuntu was 200 million users in four years and hinted at some upcoming hardware partnerships...

    What if the SteamBox's official OS is going to be Ubuntu and Steam is to be heavily integrated into Unity?

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