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02-14-2013, 07:44 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Steam For GNU/Linux Sale
For those that want/have Steam, or have thought about it, now might be a good time to check it out...
http://store.steampowered.com/
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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02-14-2013, 10:10 PM
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marked.
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02-15-2013, 12:21 AM
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Lifer
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Sweet! Gonna check this out.
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That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. Romans 10:9-10
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02-15-2013, 01:15 AM
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Lifer
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Seems the games themselves also have to be coded for Linux. Most arn't. Damn. I figured ALL steam games would work. There is a decent amount for Linux though.
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~Red Squirrel~
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. Romans 10:9-10
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02-15-2013, 07:31 AM
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Lifer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Red Squirrel
Seems the games themselves also have to be coded for Linux. Most arn't. Damn. I figured ALL steam games would work. There is a decent amount for Linux though.
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Yea, there's still a ways to go to get things ported over. Getting in early will show support for the platform though, and there should be a few good games that can be scored cheap.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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02-15-2013, 01:56 PM
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I need to look at this... but since I'm paring down my hardware, I'm not sure if I want to...
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02-15-2013, 03:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lxskllr
Getting in early will show support for the platform ...
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That sounds like a much more tempting reason to act than the games.
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02-15-2013, 06:14 PM
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Lifer
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It's kinda lame that they still don't have an RPM on the site for RHEL/CentOS...
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02-15-2013, 06:44 PM
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Lifer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ultimatebob
It's kinda lame that they still don't have an RPM on the site for RHEL/CentOS...
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You could try this...
http://spot.fedorapeople.org/steam/steam.repo
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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02-16-2013, 02:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lxskllr
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That one has packages for Fedora 17 and 18.
I did test http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410...9071258869580/
on CentOS 6, but:
1. glibc.i686 is required, while I prefer pure x86_64. Tolerable
2. Requires: glibc >= 2.15, openal-soft >= 1.13, zlib >= 1.2.3.3. Showstopper on el6, unless one does radical things.
The spot.fedorapeople.org/steam does have a *.src.rpm, so in principle a
rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm
could do, but again we hit the version dependency here and there.
Enough for one day. 
[Edit:] To be fair, RedHat/CentOS/Scientific Linux/Oracle is a stout workhorse that by design cannot be expected to "play". It is for "work". Fedora is the different breed (in rpm-based distros).
Last edited by mv2devnull; 02-17-2013 at 03:50 AM.
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02-17-2013, 09:12 AM
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No TL2
TF2 seems to be a fun shoot 'em up though. Runs pretty well, and free.
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02-17-2013, 10:54 PM
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I bought about 8 games so far. Steam is shaping up to be pretty nice, methinks.
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02-18-2013, 02:57 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lxskllr
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this is great news and i will look into this when i get out of work
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02-18-2013, 10:13 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by H54
I bought about 8 games so far. Steam is shaping up to be pretty nice, methinks.
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When steam first came i didn't like it much due to various problems with windows xp and my broadband at the time but i will give steam another go with Ubunto
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02-18-2013, 11:12 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nemesismk2
When steam first came i didn't like it much due to various problems with windows xp and my broadband at the time but i will give steam another go with Ubunto |
I don't think you'll be disappointed. The developers have really put in the time and sort out a lot of the problems.
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02-19-2013, 04:24 PM
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Steam for linux seems to have shaped up greatly. I was in the beta at the start of the year and it was.. flaky. But now it's awesomely stable for me, and works as well as the windows version.
With crusader kings 2, and soon EU4 native for linux I don't really need any other games
Last edited by obidamnkenobi; 02-19-2013 at 04:29 PM.
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02-20-2013, 08:07 AM
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Do they distribute a 64bit binary, or do I still have to emulate 6x86 in the kernel, and carry around a second set of libraries?
...Mostly interested, because the lack of 32 bit binary broke HLDS for me, when I updated to a 64 bit architecture (on gentoo, where I don't normally need any 32 bit cruft, because I just compile for 64bit)
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02-20-2013, 08:14 AM
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Steam is 32bit only for now.
This is the biggest problem I have with ports to Linux from Windows.
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02-20-2013, 08:18 AM
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Lifer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by _Rick_
Do they distribute a 64bit binary, or do I still have to emulate 6x86 in the kernel, and carry around a second set of libraries?
...Mostly interested, because the lack of 32 bit binary broke HLDS for me, when I updated to a 64 bit architecture (on gentoo, where I don't normally need any 32 bit cruft, because I just compile for 64bit)
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It's hard finding specific information on their site, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's 32bit.
Edit:
Jodell got it.
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02-20-2013, 10:45 AM
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Thanks - hopefully one day they'll fix that...
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