The Steam Linux Beta Begins...

[Detructor]

its because he dont know that in english. the date is 2012-11-06. and in other countries like mine (Denmark). it is 2012-06-11. it is backwards

oh my strogg, it's 11.06.2012, obviously. Get your writing right.

[d2kx]

Steam Big Picture mode beta is included aswell.

http://store.steampowered.com/news/9289/

[johnc]

They had 60,000 applications!!!

and only 1,000 'tickets'...

You're not the only one

My hunch is they're focusing on 32-bit Ubuntu first. I should have lied and said I had 32-bit.

[AJenbo]

its because he dont know that in english. the date is 2012-11-06. and in other countries like mine (Denmark). it is 2012-06-11. it is backwards

Actually it's 06/11/2012 (one more Dane here). 2012-11-06 is an international format.

[d2kx]

There's a workaround so that everyone can use Steam right now But only Steam itself and the indie games, not the Source engine games.

Everything is working perfect for me with fglrx and Ubuntu+Unity. Even Steam Big Picture mode and even the Steam Community Overlay toggled with Shift+Tab ingame Awesome.

[asdx]

Any words if it's running fine with nouveau or radeon?

[lamiska]

There's a workaround so that everyone can use Steam right now But only Steam itself and the indie games, not the Source engine games.

Everything is working perfect for me with fglrx and Ubuntu+Unity. Even Steam Big Picture mode and even the Steam Community Overlay toggled with Shift+Tab ingame Awesome.

tell us your secrets, where is the workaround?

[d2kx]

tell us your secrets, where is the workaround?

Not sure if it works without Unity. With Ubuntu/Unity, open Steam with rightclick on Steam on the Unity launcher, then click on "friends". Then in the friends window rightclick a friend and chose "view Steam community profile". Then the main Steam window opens without restrictions

[FourDMusic]

My hunch is they're focusing on 32-bit Ubuntu first. I should have lied and said I had 32-bit.

That's correct.

$file ubuntu12_32/steam
ubuntu12_32/steam: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=0xd7c10225333018a3a37cc08fc9439552cda549e7, not stripped

[aaannz]

Not sure if it works without Unity. With Ubuntu/Unity, open Steam with rightclick on Steam on the Unity launcher, then click on "friends". Then in the friends window rightclick a friend and chose "view Steam community profile". Then the main Steam window opens without restrictions

Just running `./steam.sh steam://open/friends` works for me.

I'm running radeon (r600) driver (HD4850) and so far its working. BigPicture intro animation is rather slow but rest is working. Game overlay is working with World of Goo which is the only game I successfully started.
There is an issue with missing tray icon in KDE 4.9.3, so after closing all windows, steam is running in background but another execution of `./steam.sh steam://open/friends` will open friend window again.