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Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Wow Slashdot! by bennyp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Check out this headline: Linux guy edits script to better suit his setup. Let's get this to the front page NOW!

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    could it be?
    1. Re:Wow Slashdot! by RocketRabbit · · Score: 5, Insightful

      But how else can "anonymous reader" engage Dice Holdings' genius marketing team to promote thepowerbase.com's awesome news aggregator?

      I think you are missing the point of these slashdot stories. They are pure SEO spam, designed to uprank whatever shitty site is giving us a synopsis of what is happening at another site.

      It's really too bad the internet took off and was noticed by business and advertising types. We need a modern day digital Jesus to upset the money changers' tables.

  2. Re:big deal by Narcocide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, actually they do. Debian, Mozilla and Apache are the ones run by shadowy not-for-profit legal foundations (aka "charities"), but Canonical, on the other hand is a a for-profit corporation is actually selling your demographic info to advertisers just like Facebook and Apple.