Valve's Steam Linux Beta Begins Next Week

[mmix]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTE5MzI

Valve's Steam Linux beta is finally arriving.

[Bazu135]

It's almost tempting to get Ubuntu just to try it out!

Almost

[Pitfall]

I highly doubt that the beta cannot be run on other distro's than Ubuntu.

I cannot wait to play 'proper' games on my Linux machine!

[TK492]

Originally Posted by Bazu135

It's almost tempting to get Ubuntu just to try it out!

Almost

Same here! Would be a real bummer if they went out of their way to make sure it ONLY runs on Ubuntu...

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[Bazu135]

Originally Posted by TK492

Same here! Would be a real bummer if they went out of their way to make sure it ONLY runs on Ubuntu...

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From what I've read on their blog, they're initially only releasing it on Ubuntu, but when-and-if it takes off there, they'll look into exporting it to a wider range of OS's. Which is fair enough, I suppose.

Given that 'regular' Steam can run on Linux through Wine, I can't imagine they'll try too hard to lock down on making the Ubuntu release strictly Ubuntu-only. That said, I'm not a Valve dev!

[ElderSnake]

I'd use it on Ubuntu if I HAVE to, to help with the beta process, but otherwise I'd be happy to just run it in Arch as I know inevitably it will show up in the AUR.

[starstatras]

Originally Posted by Pitfall

I highly doubt that the beta cannot be run on other distro's than Ubuntu.

I cannot wait to play 'proper' games on my Linux machine!

Yes, because the quake/doom series and RTCW etc arent 'proper' games.


As long as we get goldsrc games like CS and TFC I will be happy, I consider steam a necessary evil as it is required to run those games legitimately and will even beat running WON2 Half-Life on wine!