Proof In Steam's Mac Client Of Linux Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Proof In Steam's Mac Client Of Linux Support

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.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14823

[HoboJ]

If this is true I'll be able to play my source games once again. (I refuse to use wine) Which will be awesome!

[d2kx]

Good things come to those who wait :-)

They do focus on Apple right now, because Apple wants the showlight, Valve gets the money. But Linux support will happen as the next step of the Steam evolution.

[.CME.]

i think it's just for servers, where valve will ship a unified *nix package

[whizse]

There's been rumors about internal Linux builds, but that doesn't mean that they plan on releasing it. I'd love to be proved wrong though...

[sloggerKhan]

It's a poor script -- the uname command will return Linux on any architecture I'm pretty sure, which seems at odds with what looks like assuming a 32 system..

[BlackStar]

There's been rumors about internal Linux builds, but that doesn't mean that they plan on releasing it. I'd love to be proved wrong though...

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Half-life 2 the last FPS I actually enjoyed playing. I'd love to play ep3 natively on Linux.

[ad_267]

I'm not surprised that they run and test Steam/Source games on Linux at Valve, but how long it takes them to make Steam on Linux available outside is another question altogether.

[ad_267]

It's a poor script -- the uname command will return Linux on any architecture I'm pretty sure, which seems at odds with what looks like assuming a 32 system..

Is there a 64 bit Windows build of Steam? Perhaps they only have a 32 bit Linux build at the moment.

[SheeEttin]

Yaaaaay!

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