There Is No Doubt, Steam Is Coming To Linux!

[mastertheknife]

Patch for the current steamui.so:

http://www.filedropper.com/steamui-1273290921

Changes from original steamui.so: Changed all dlopen() calls in steamui.so to use RTLD_LAZY instead of RTLD_NOW.

[mastertheknife]

New update released today from Valve!
This time all files were updated except libsteam.so, Good enough!
This means the patches don't apply anymore, but i got it to work again, but it doesn't look any different and still no fonts unfortunately.
However, this time i didn't need to skip checking the return value of InitGlobalInstance() like in the past, seems like they fixed the bugs in it or something. I simply changed all dlopen() calls in steamui.so to RTLD_LAZY instead of RTLD_NOW again.
Screenshot:

[tmpdir]

In this thread a lot of people seem worried about Valve ending their linux efforts (if any) because of experiments with their product.

Serious, if Valve wants to come to linux, their motivation will not change because of anything as trivial as experimenting with their products or code.

[whizse]

I was mostly curios about waiting for Steam before buying games. Steam on Linux might or might not happen, the best way to convince Valve (and everyone else) is to continue buying native Linux titles.

Keep supporting LGP and the indies.

[CRAY4]

Dont misunderstand, I have some original and some not

the main reason is the time, the money and the being sure you will finish it

I know it?s wrong, but i am honest and this is my point of view

yeah same here, lol

[elect]

What's stopping you from doing so right now?

Dont misunderstand, I have some original and some not

the main reason is the time, the money and the being sure you will finish it

I know it?s wrong, but i am honest and this is my point of view

[whizse]

If Steam comes to Linux it?s the time i will start to buy original games

What's stopping you from doing so right now?

[elect]

If Steam comes to Linux it?s the time i will start to buy original games

[birdie]

I'm a 100% sure Valve doesn't care that we are tinkering around with publicly available files.

Read again, they are publicly available.

Also I'm quite sure they've already noticed that we are actively downloading those files and since they keep silent, that means they are content with this situation.

I believe there's nothing to discuss here, let's just wait till the Linux client becomes more mature and I do want to believe Source engine is being ported in order to run on Linux.

That will means there are two large game developers which believe in the Linux desktop. Sigh.

Linux is almost a 20 y.o. OS and there are two commercial game publishers ... it's really pathetic.

[mastertheknife]

Nerds have been hijacking the OSX client for two weeks and that project is still continuing!

True and even worse, some of them found out how to login without the need for a beta account.