I heard some rumblings about this about a months ago and all I could find was a Valve Job Application describing porting Windows Games to Linux and then an Ubuntu IRC log of someone logged in as ValveSoft and trying to recruit programmers for that same job. That is all I could find unless there is new info out <a href="http://gordallott.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/big-games-devloper-valve-porting-huge-game-series-half-life-2-orange-box-to-linux-possibly/">http://gordallott.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/big-games-devloper-valve-porting-huge-game-series-half-life-2-orange-box-to-linux-possibly/</a> <a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com/job-SenSoftEngineer.html">http://www.valvesoftware.com/job-SenSoftEngineer.html</a> -Simon <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:57 AM, W S <<a href="mailto:ws3reg@gmail.com">ws3reg@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Have a link to a URL?  I'll believe it when I see it. :) On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney <<a href="mailto:thezorch@gmail.com">thezorch@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Good news for Linux gamers, I learned not long ago that Valve is porting > their popular Source Engine game Half-Life 2 and most like also the > immensely popular 1st person puzzle game Portal and TeamFortress 2 over > to Linux.  There aren't too many details out right now as to whether > they'll run via OpenGL or SDL, but I'm figuring they'll use OpenGL since > its instruction set has matured to where its equal with Direct X 9.0c in > functionality and perhaps even better. > > -- > Michael "TheZorch" Haney > <a href="mailto:thezorch@gmail.com">thezorch@gmail.com</a> > <a href="http://thezorch.googlepages.com/home" target="_blank">http://thezorch.googlepages.com/home</a> > AIM: <a href="mailto:thezorch@gmail.com">thezorch@gmail.com</a> > Yahoo IM: zorchhaney > ICQ: 343230252 > GoogleTalk: thezorch > Skype Name: thezorch > MSN Messeger: <a href="mailto:haneymichael@hotmail.com">haneymichael@hotmail.com</a>: > > > -- > Ubuntu-us-co mailing list > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co</a> > -- Ubuntu-us-co mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co</a> </blockquote></div>