Steam on Linux

[sruon]

Less than two weeks ago we reported on the Mac OS X Steam client confirming the existence of a Linux client and then found more Linux references too. We then found the unreleased Steam Linux binaries that were under active development. Some still didn't believe the existence of a Steam client for Linux with Source Engine support, but it's something we have said for nearly two years based upon our sources and then the emergence of these binaries.

These Linux binaries didn't successfully run, but now some independent users managed to get the first Steam client window to appear. Below is the first screenshot of the Steam Linux client provided to us by a Phoronix reader known as Kame.

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http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...eam_first_show

This is part of the window being rendered, but as you can see, Valve is still working away at their Linux client. The client is not yet in a usable state to play your favorite games (at least in the external builds), but you can see that it is coming. You can follow this lengthy forum thread discussing their poking around of the Steam Linux build and today's IRC logs (via #phoronix on FreeNode IRC) as those independent users continued in their exploration efforts (search for mastertheknife within that page as he was the user that managed to achieve this feat).

Update: Here's another screenshot we just received of the Steam client log-in window again running natively under Linux.

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http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...am_second_show

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=ODIwNQ
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23328

Yay?

[dejet]

its a good thing, I myself screw around with linux from time to time. I will play games on it when it comes out just to screw around more.

People who live by linux will love it I bet.

[Akucaen]

Given OSX's unix underpinnings, it'd be silly not to offer it under linux. It couldn't be that hard of a conversion.

[Darus Grey]

Given OSX's unix underpinnings, it'd be silly not to offer it under linux. It couldn't be that hard of a conversion.

In many cases it's no conversion at all, a lot of linux and OSX programs can cross-compile on each other with no issues.

[sruon]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...goes-live.html

Only a single sentence but apparently they officially confirmed it to the Telegraph