Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian

Posted by samzenpus on Monday March 4, 2013 @06:22AM from the check-it-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Gaming on Linux is growing fast right now, and most of that is thanks to Steam. Initially, Steam committed only to the most popular desktop distribution, Ubuntu, but more recently has opened the door to others. So what do you do when you want to game in Linux and you're using something a little less popular — at least, on the desktop? If you're a programmer called GhostSquad57, you rewrite the installer for Debian. GhostSquad57 uploaded his efforts to Github yesterday, and has since reached out to the Linux community."

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Re:Wow Slashdot! by zigfreed · 2013-03-04 06:37 · Score: 5, Informative

It's worse than that. This is a Slashdot discussion about a Reddit thread, with a third site intermediary.
Re:big deal by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-04 06:37 · Score: 5, Informative

Seeing as Ubuntu is debian for those scared of terms.
Even less of a big deal when you check out NEW.