Yet More Signs Of Valve's Steam On Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Yet More Signs Of Valve's Steam On Linux

Yesterday we reported on Proof In Steam's Mac Client Of Linux Support as we received the bash launcher used by the closed-beta Steam on Mac OS X that showed support for Linux. Today there are yet more signs of Linux support when studying Valve's Mac OS X client...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODE3MQ

[pvtcupcakes]

I'm skeptical of this info. It lists X360 as well, but I'm pretty sure Steam isn't coming to the Xbox.

The bash script is more believable however.

Also:

More information (perhaps the best yet) is coming soon.

How soon is soon? And couldn't you have clumped the two together later?

[danber]

Steam - Linux client binaries?

By looking in the file at http://store.steampowered.com/public...m_client_linux I managed to change the url and download 4 interesting files.

http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/public_all.zip.42037f1079151a7bfb225ef0ac9bd5b3b3840ce9

http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/skins_all.zip.6a58428db616736d79a3374ba75abd29e2c1276f

http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/bins_linux.zip.dc36f31374267ad4a740762a6cf1925ed30bcab9

http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_linux.zip.52367793a26b83abc84871770277e1b8d77608bc

I have not been able to verify the content of the files yet, but will look into it as soon as I get home from work.

[FireBurn]

FFS not another article on Steam, if it's going to happen it's going to happen, can't you write an article based on facts from Valve rather than speculation

On a side node I doubt Steam games would work on a 2.4 kernel never mind a 2.2 kernel

[V!NCENT]

On a side node I doubt Steam games would work on a 2.4 kernel never mind a 2.2 kernel

2.2 and 2.4 only have drivers for VERY OLD HARDWARE that you CANNOT run SOURCE games on.

Are you retarted

[FireBurn]

2.2 and 2.4 only have drivers for VERY OLD HARDWARE that you CANNOT run SOURCE games on.

Are you retarted

You'll find that was my point

[sylware]

hu... they forgot the 64 bits builds.

[K9Crunch]

Thank you and keep up the good investigation work!
I'm full of hope for native valve games on Ubuntu.

I am a little skeptical but not going to be negative to the bitter to the end about this.

[V!NCENT]

You'll find that was my point

Ah OK, lol.. My bad :')

I thought that you were making some kind of a deal out of it

[M1AU]

FFS not another article on Steam, if it's going to happen it's going to happen, can't you write an article based on facts from Valve rather than speculation

On a side node I doubt Steam games would work on a 2.4 kernel never mind a 2.2 kernel

That's exactly what I thought. If it's pure speculation (and it is), it should be treated as that in the post.