Valve Releasing Steam for Linux

[Christopher Lemire]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_steam_announcement
>>
>> Excerpt:
>>
>> "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. [...]
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Similar to Valve's strategy with Mac OS X, it's expected that they too
>> will be providing Linux game releases on the same day as Windows / Mac
>> OS X for their new titles and that there will be first-rate support
>> across all platforms. Portal II should mark the first of these
>> efforts. [...]
>>
>> this should provide a huge opportunity for the Linux distributions and
>> other Linux stakeholders to prove their viability against Windows and
>> can begin attracting gamers if successfully leveraged. We have already
>> shown that in terms of OpenGL performance, Ubuntu 10.04 is on par with
>> Windows 7 for ATI/AMD and NVIDIA graphics and that Linux is a faster
>> gaming platform to Mac OS X."
>>
>
> Commercial game development support for Linux and Steam for Linux?
>
> About Fraking Time!!!!
>
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