Posted on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 9:27 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
For those that have doubted the exclusive Phoronix claims for
quite a while now that the Steam client and Source Engine are in fact
being ported to Linux, the doubts can be nearly laid to rest. Even I
began to wonder how long it would take before the clients for their
popular games would be publicly released under Linux. However, after
confirming the information perhaps a bit too soon, their level of Linux
interest is much more clear after spending a day at their offices. A
meeting topped off the day with Gabe Newell regarding Linux where he
sounded more like a Linux saint than an ex-Microsoft employee. Valve
does have some great plans for Linux beyond just shipping the client
versions of Steam and their popular games on the Source Engine. Read more
at Phoronix.