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Steam for Linux.

Post by Animavore » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:47 pm

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/201 ... am-linux/1
Valve has officially confirmed that it is developing a version of its Steam digital distribution platform for Linux - but its efforts are to be limited to a single distribution initially.

Announced late last night on the newly-launched Valve Linux Blog, the company has confirmed that its Steam platform will be launching on Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution, with other distributions potentially following at a later date.
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Re: Steam for Linux.

Post by JimC » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:24 am

Those pistons will have to move fucking fast...

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Re: Steam for Linux.

Post by Jason » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:48 am

I'm gonna guess it won't be open source. :smug:

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Re: Steam for Linux.

Post by Drewish » Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:59 am

Awesome!
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Re: Steam for Linux.

Post by dj357 » Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:53 pm

Poor Valve... Even if they choose the slowest evolving distro the compatibility issues are going to keep their staff up to their eyes in energy drinks and fast food deliveries.
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