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Valve preparing Steam for Linux!

Ren — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:34:24 +0000

Phoronix posted:
Valve Corporation has today rolled out their Steam Mac OS X client to the general public and confirmed something we have been reporting for two years: the Steam content delivery platform and Source Engine are coming to Linux. This news is coming days after we discovered proof in Steam's Mac OS X Client of Linux support and subsequently found more Linux references and even the unreleased Steam Linux client. The day has finally come and Linux gamers around the world have a reason to rejoice, as this is the biggest news for the Linux gaming community that sees very few tier-one titles.

Those enthusiasts within the Phoronix community even managed to get the unreleased Steam Linux client running up to a partially drawn UI and other modifications, but now that work can stop as Valve is preparing to officially release the Steam Linux client from where they will start to offer Linux native games available for sale. For all those doubting our reports that Source/Steam would be coming to Linux, you can find confirmation in the UK's Telegraph and other news sites. An announcement from Valve itself is imminent.

Found already within the Steam store are Linux-native games like Unreal Tournament 2004, World of Goo, and titles from id Software such as Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Doom 3. Now that the Source Engine is officially supported on Linux, some Source-based games will be coming over too. Will we finally see Unreal Tournament 3 surface on Linux too? Only time will tell, but it is something we speculated back in 2008. Postal III is also being released this year atop the Source Engine and it will be offering up a native client. We have confirmed that Valve's latest and popular titles like Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2 are among the first of the Steam Linux titles, similar to the Mac OS X support.

The released Linux client should be available by the end of summer.

Proof In Steam's Mac Client Of Linux Support

Ren — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:43:29 +0000

We have our hands on the bash launcher used by Valve's Steam client for Mac OS X that was recently announced -- along with the Source Engine for OS X -- and is currently in closed beta. While such scripts are usually insignificant, there is something interesting within it and that is explicit support for Linux.

In early March the news broke that Steam and the Source Engine were coming to Mac OS X. Not only was Valve bringing over its flagship game engine and their very popular game delivery platform, but also they are bringing many of their popular games over to Apple's Mac OS X. This is using an OpenGL renderer for the Source Engine (compared to the past where the engine was limited to Microsoft's DirectX) and going forward they plan to provide Mac OS X versions at the same time as their Windows game releases. From the customer's perspective, if you already own a Steam-acquired game on Windows, you can download the game on Mac OS X too via Steam without facing any additional charges...

Go to the link below for more info.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=steam_linux_script&num=1

Valve recruiting Senior Engineer port Windows-based games to Linux

Ren — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:30:49 +0000

Take a look at this job add on Valve's website. Notice one of the bullets in the 'Responsibilities' section? - Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform. Looks like Valve may be listening to our demands. http://www.valvesoftware.com/job-SenSoftEngineer.html