Steam for Linux confirmed?

[Bateluer]

At Phoronix

Discuss.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Sweet, hopefully Valve will make a Linux version of all of their games. I never could get steam's chat / VOIP feature to work quite right in Linux.

 

[pcslookout]

Would this make gaming on linux possible then for most games ?

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: pcslookout
Would this make gaming on linux possible then for most games ?

Uh, no. Steam is a content distribution and community platform, not a game engine. It's still up to the game developers to write game engines that will work with Linux.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

I don't know what to think of this shit. The Phoronix article says that they libraries are not for servers, then I see this:

http://games.slashdot.org/arti...1&sid=08/11/29/1443227

Then I read this post from the Ubuntu forums from someone who identified some strings.

Originally posted by: eragon100
@ the people that say these binaries are for server use, here are some of the strings:

k_EMsgClientRequestForgottenPasswordEmailResponse

k_EMsgAMSetCommunityState

k_EMsgClientGetLobbyMetadataResponse

GetBillingAddress

etc.

Right, server use

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: pcslookout
Would this make gaming on linux possible then for most games ?

Uh, no. Steam is a content distribution and community platform, not a game engine. It's still up to the game developers to write game engines that will work with Linux.

Yeah but it could help put a foot in the door to have more game developers write their game engines with linux in mine as well.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: pcslookout
Would this make gaming on linux possible then for most games ?

Uh, no. Steam is a content distribution and community platform, not a game engine. It's still up to the game developers to write game engines that will work with Linux.

Yeah but it could help put a foot in the door to have more game developers write their game engines with linux in mine as well.

It could, but not really. Devs aren't going to start spending considerable time coding for 2 OSs just because a game can be DL'd in Linux. It'll be nice for any games that are on Steam that can run natively in Linux (Quake/Doom/etc.) but that's about it for awhile.

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: pcslookout
Would this make gaming on linux possible then for most games ?

Uh, no. Steam is a content distribution and community platform, not a game engine. It's still up to the game developers to write game engines that will work with Linux.

Yeah but it could help put a foot in the door to have more game developers write their game engines with linux in mine as well.

It could, but not really. Devs aren't going to start spending considerable time coding for 2 OSs just because a game can be DL'd in Linux. It'll be nice for any games that are on Steam that can run natively in Linux (Quake/Doom/etc.) but that's about it for awhile.

At the very least it'll bring more attention to linux. Most of the non-engineering majors I know don't even know what linux is.

 

[zerogear]

I'm an engineering major, and I wouldn't touch linux in my home PC

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: zerogear
I'm an engineering major, and I wouldn't touch linux in my home PC

But it (can be) so purty.

Check out these screens:
http://news.softpedia.com/news...-8-04-Beta-92148.shtml

Enlightenment .17 FTW! Looks better than vista, and requires about 1/4 of the GPU power and half the RAM.

The only thing it lacks is gaming, and that's what dual-booting's for.

 

[irishScott]

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[AnthroAndStargate]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok

Originally posted by: pcslookout

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: pcslookout
Would this make gaming on linux possible then for most games ?

Uh, no. Steam is a content distribution and community platform, not a game engine. It's still up to the game developers to write game engines that will work with Linux.

Yeah but it could help put a foot in the door to have more game developers write their game engines with linux in mine as well.

It could, but not really. Devs aren't going to start spending considerable time coding for 2 OSs just because a game can be DL'd in Linux. It'll be nice for any games that are on Steam that can run natively in Linux (Quake/Doom/etc.) but that's about it for awhile.

Coding for 3 OSes. OS X uses Open GL as well. Keep in mind Macs are rapidly growing in market share and even the low end Macbooks can run some games. So I think more devs will start coding for *nix/OS X. The UT3 engine has already been ported to Linux and OS X afterall. And there is always iD.