Steam and Source on Linux?

[YankeeDeuce]

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There have been rumors since last year that Valve may be serious about porting Source games to Linux after Valve Software began seeking a senior software engineer with the responsibility of porting Windows-based games to the Linux platform. Valve Software has yet to officially announce Linux clients for any of its software, but Phoronix has received information confirming that Valve is indeed porting its very popular Source engine to the Linux platform.

From SteamFriends - Steam - Source Engine and Steam Coming to Linux?


I would love it if this were true. Gaming is the only reason I'm on Windows at all.

[J-Mix]

omg! this would be awesome!

[CoffeeShark]

yeah, i'm sure Valve is dying to capture that 2% of the market.

[Teck]

That would be epic...

[BuddhistSoldier]

zOMB!

[MundaneRaptor]

Hey could someone hand me one of Valve's Nails? I'm going to hammer it into Window's Coffin...

[CoffeeShark]

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Originally Posted by MundaneRaptor

Hey could someone hand me one of Valve's Nails? I'm going to hammer it into Window's Coffin...

is that the 90% share coffin?

Just wondering.

[panic!]

Ok so they get Steam working.... but still wouldn't you need Wine for all the titles on it?

[DSR]

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Originally Posted by CoffeeShark

is that the 90% share coffin?

[SonicSpeed]

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Originally Posted by panic!

Ok so they get Steam working.... but still wouldn't you need Wine for all the titles on it?

Maybe for some games, but if they were to port the entire source engine, all those games would run natively. This would be a big help to the open-source community as currently there are only a few games (OpenGL based ones like Neverwinter Nights and all the iD games) that run natively. Maybe this'll push AMD to put out some decent Linux drivers (although I'm lucky enough to have a 7600GT)