Originally posted by Dehir
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It's Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux!
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HL1 and Source engine games run nearly flawlessly under Wine 1.3.0. If (and I emphasize "if"), Steam is getting ported to GNU/Linux, I would say it's a good bet that Steam will be available in the 32 bit x86 flavor only. This means people running GNU/Linux in the AMD64 flavor may have to compile and install some shared libraries for 32 bit. Also, different distros have different versions of shared libraries and install these libraries to different file names and different paths. I think we'll find that Steam on GNU/Linux will not support GNU/Linux in general, but support Ubuntu, or Fedora, or some other specific distro and only support it in the 32 bit x86 flavor. I perfer to run Debian testing AMD64 and I seriously doubt that Valve will support the GNU/Linux Steam client on Debian testing AMD64. Therefore, even if Steam comes GNU/Linux, I will most likely continue to run the Windows version under Wine.
Valve, if you read this, please don't bother with porting Steam to GNU/Linux. Just contribute some code to Wine and make Steam as compatible as possible with all distros.
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Originally posted by Dehir View PostDunno if you have read but http://www.valvesoftware.com/job-SenSoftEngineer.html managed to find out that currently valve software is looking for software engineer. And one part of the jobs is to port windows based games to the linux platform.
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