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Title: Valve bringing Source to Linux!
Post by: Knight on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 20:08:16 PM
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Found already within the Steam store are Linux-native games like Unreal Tournament 2004, World of Goo, and titles from id Software such as Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Doom 3. Now that the Source Engine is officially supported on Linux, some Source-based games will be coming over too. Will we finally see Unreal Tournament 3 surface on Linux too? Only time will tell, but it is something we speculated back in 2008. Postal III is also being released this year atop the Source Engine and it will be offering up a native client. We have confirmed that Valve's latest and popular titles like Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2 are among the first of the Steam Linux titles, similar to the Mac OS X support. The released Linux client should be available by the end of summer.


http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_steam_announcement&num=1 (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve_steam_announcement&num=1)


Big news in open source computing. I just hope I can get my ubuntu working by the end of summer :P
Title: Re: Valve bringing Source to Linux!
Post by: Dialects on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 21:03:48 PM
Valve's also porting Steam to OS X.
Title: Re: Valve bringing Source to Linux!
Post by: Alex on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 21:08:15 PM
Quote from: Dann on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 21:03:48 PM
Valve's also porting Steam to OS X.

Already did. It supposedly came out today. Along with a free copy of Portal until May 24th.
Title: Re: Valve bringing Source to Linux!
Post by: -Delta- on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 21:22:24 PM
This is pretty cool! I don't have money for games, but it's still cool.  :)
Title: Re: Valve bringing Source to Linux!
Post by: BlueBlaster on Thursday, May 13, 2010, 01:33:27 AM
I like how they unnecessarily throw in Unreal Tournament 3 in that paragraph as well.
Title: Re: Valve bringing Source to Linux!
Post by: -Delta- on Thursday, May 13, 2010, 02:11:45 AM
Quote from: BlueBlaster on Thursday, May 13, 2010, 01:33:27 AM
I like how they unnecessarily throw in Unreal Tournament 3 in that paragraph as well.

You kinda have to know the story to get that. Epic has been "bringing" Unreal Tournament 3 to Linux for what seems to be forever now. I don't know how long it has been out, but I doubt they'll ever finish the port.
Title: Re: Valve bringing Source to Linux!
Post by: Alex on Thursday, May 13, 2010, 06:55:43 AM
UT04 is much better than UT3 anyways.
Title: Re: Valve bringing Source to Linux!
Post by: BlueBlaster on Thursday, May 13, 2010, 17:40:35 PM
Quote from: -Delta- on Thursday, May 13, 2010, 02:11:45 AM
Quote from: BlueBlaster on Thursday, May 13, 2010, 01:33:27 AM
I like how they unnecessarily throw in Unreal Tournament 3 in that paragraph as well.

You kinda have to know the story to get that. Epic has been "bringing" Unreal Tournament 3 to Linux for what seems to be forever now. I don't know how long it has been out, but I doubt they'll ever finish the port.
Yea, but the article is supposed to be about Valve. Epic steals their thunder halfway through lol.