Valve On Linux To Be Presented In Two Weeks

[RussianNeuroMancer]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Left+4+Dead+2+L...+FPS+in+OpenGL (link to Khronos web-site).
Don't thank me.

[Tea23]

"This is going to happen."

Is this journalism now? Where's the source? Link to the SIGGRAPH owned webpage that says "talk by Valve on Left 4 Dead 2 running on Linux".

I have looked on the SIGGRAPH 2012 website, but it's horribly designed and finding specific information on it is impossible. So, Michael, link the source of your information please.

[9a3eedi]

I wrote a little bit about early computing, and the 60hz smoothness of direct-to-hardware assembly-coded machines.

And that low-latency configured (standard) linux kernels can do the same now.

A nice read, for a bit oldschool-info, and the current state of linux.

And why you should low-latency config your linux, before Left4Dead

Peace Be With You.

This might've been true in the late 90s or the early 2000s, but is it true these days with today's hardware? Doesn't the Linux kernel's tickless make this a non-issue now?

[AJSB]

It can be annoying not having games, but there are some and some of them are really good. That, and WINE works really well.

Actually no matter i have more than 50 legit windows games, i just noticed that the game that i play by far more time nowdays is still good and "old" Enemy Territory : QUAKE Wars...still best than majority of todays FPS ( i even dare to say, better than ANYTHING else)....guess what ? It has a Linux client

In fact, i played majority of my ETQW online hours with it instead of the Windows client....

So, i'm all good till Valve and their partners games start to roll in

[fuzz]

+1 !

So, it will be shown in two weeks huh ?

Valve is at full Steam commited with Linux

OK, this is gonna be my last day using Windows in my PC...this night i will reformat my HDs and will get rid once and for all of Windows....and i thought that this year i wouldn't buy any more games.....NOT so

It can be annoying not having games, but there are some and some of them are really good. That, and WINE works really well.

[AJSB]

Also would like to show interest in the slides, esp. the from 6 to 300 fps part.

+1 !

So, it will be shown in two weeks huh ?

Valve is at full Steam commited with Linux

OK, this is gonna be my last day using Windows in my PC...this night i will reformat my HDs and will get rid once and for all of Windows....and i thought that this year i wouldn't buy any more games.....NOT so

[Adarion]

Also would like to show interest in the slides, esp. the from 6 to 300 fps part.

[PeterKraus]

Well, it was (is) quite unbelievable, that Valve is committing to Linux. Also, Michael's frequent self-linked coverage didn't help the credibility of these claims, especially as "nothing was happening" for quite a while. I don't suppose most of the haters will come and apologise to Phoronix for shouting "Lies!"...

(While I agree Michael needs to buy his beer somehow, articles like "we will have some Lion vs Linux benchmarks soon" are really quite crap.)

[fuzz]

Half a year ago many Phoronix members laughed at the thought of Steam for Linux. Now Valve is one of the biggest Linux pushers we have.

Pretty awesome, no?

All I can do is send links to people saying "I told you so!"

[DeepDayze]

Hopefully they'll release the slides and maybe video from there.

That would be great...and maybe a way for others to ask questions via twitter or a blog

Half a year ago many Phoronix members laughed at the thought of Steam for Linux. Now Valve is one of the biggest Linux pushers we have.

Bet it was all the negative criticism and feedback they got that forced their hand, so if all this pans out we should see possible ports of their game library