April 25, 2012 at 19:25Valve completes Steam porting for GNU / Linux
Phoronix gave an interesting report that Valve is finishing porting its Steam to the GNU / Linux family of operating systems. The first information about Steam for Linux appeared back in 2010, but the work turned out to be more complicated than expected, and there were also not enough qualified personnel to work with OpenGL for Linux.
The difficulty is that Valve wants to make a native application without using Wine libraries. This is primarily due to the views of Gabe Newell, who has recently been very active in criticizing Microsoft (despite the fact that he was actually the producer of the first three versions of Windows) and speaks negatively about Windows 8. To popularize the platform for developers, Valve plans to release a version of Left 4 Dead 2 specifically for Linux, and then versions of all games on the Source engine. At the moment, there are already working builds of the game for Ubuntu 11.10 with AMD drivers.
Read more about all the vicissitudes in an article by Michael Larabel .
The difficulty is that Valve wants to make a native application without using Wine libraries. This is primarily due to the views of Gabe Newell, who has recently been very active in criticizing Microsoft (despite the fact that he was actually the producer of the first three versions of Windows) and speaks negatively about Windows 8. To popularize the platform for developers, Valve plans to release a version of Left 4 Dead 2 specifically for Linux, and then versions of all games on the Source engine. At the moment, there are already working builds of the game for Ubuntu 11.10 with AMD drivers.
Read more about all the vicissitudes in an article by Michael Larabel .