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

About damn time a developer takes Linux seriously. This may just be the push that *Nix systems need to become more useable for the average person.

Refalm:
As a Steam user, I really like this very much :o

Aloone_Jonez:
A group of companies need to get together and build an opensource console and split the profits. If it's cheap, easy to develop games for and provides good all round value to the consumer, the developers should come rolling in.

Kintaro:
This certainly would make it a far less boring desktop OS. It will however probably suffer stability problems, as there are many distributions yet there will be no source code so there will be no downstream patches to fix up those little differences. Yet, I am sure developers as big as Valve could have a very positive influence on the current and very chaotic development process of distributions.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Kintaro on 13 May 2010, 00:29 ---This certainly would make it a far less boring desktop OS. It will however probably suffer stability problems, as there are many distributions yet there will be no source code so there will be no downstream patches to fix up those little differences. Yet, I am sure developers as big as Valve could have a very positive influence on the current and very chaotic development process of distributions.

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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1459832&page=2

--- Quote ---Inspect the files yourself, and you'll se it actually contains binaries and libraries for GNU/Linux (32 bit). It also links to OpenGL, X server and steam's gui, so this is not a game server for GNU/Linux. The steam executable also contains the names redhat, fedora, slackware, debian, mandrake, yellowdog, gentoo, lsb and suse.
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Perhaps there won't be so many stability issues.

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