It's Official: Valve Releasing Steam, Source Engine For Linux!

[deanjo]

And how many people bought a $1 gift and purposefully marked it as a Windows sale to jerry rig the numbers?

Probably the same percentage that did that for the other OS's.

[deanjo]

The numbers would have given a better feeling as to what the situation is if they had made it one-donation, one OS version.

[Moller]

I know that I most likely only feeding the troll, but in the steam file within http://store.steampowered.com/public...213f46436c7659 there are these strings:

linux22
linux24
linux26
LINUX
Linux
Linux 2.2
Linux 2.4
Linux 2.6

They have most likely been found before, and are probably also out of interest.

[yogi_berra]

The numbers would have given a better feeling as to what the situation is if they had made it one-donation, one OS version.

The only numbers from the bundles that would be meaningful for platform stats are the downloads.

[deanjo]

The only numbers from the bundles that would be meaningful for platform stats are the downloads.

Not really as alot of people are pigs and will download items they will never use anyways. If they had to donate for each specific version on the OS then you would eliminate those pigs and would be able to easily say something like

"of the 600 donators of the xyz version people paid on average zyx amount." You would be allocating that donation specifically to one OS.

[devius]

I know that I most likely only feeding the troll, but in the steam file within http://store.steampowered.com/public...213f46436c7659 there are these strings:


They have most likely been found before, and are probably also out of interest.

So, steam has support for linux 2.2? That doesn't make much sense does it?

[entropy]

So, steam has support for linux 2.2? That doesn't make much sense does it?

SURE, it does!
And if Linux 2.2 is not running well you can give Windows 3.11 a shot...

> strings steam | grep -i windows

...
Windows
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 2008
...

[snuwoods]

Well steam isn't supported on older platforms, so perhaps those strings are there as to prevent it from loading on ancient systems. Just a guess. Oh and 100th post

[deanjo]

Well steam isn't supported on older platforms, so perhaps those strings are there as to prevent it from loading on ancient systems. Just a guess. Oh and 100th post

Technically, Steam isn't supported on any linux platforms as of yet.

[Remco]

Technically, Steam isn't supported on any linux platforms as of yet.

So obviously those strings are for showing a message that Linux is not supported when you try to run it on a Linux box!