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Linux-native Steam?
Created 30th April 2010 @ 21:22
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Probably just a rumor, but anyway: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=steam_linux_script&num=1
There’s a good chance that steam (and tf2) will appear on Linux, as afaik Mac OS and Linux are pretty close. (Both are based off of Unix)
Let the flaming commence!
PS: Not sure whether this has been posted. If so, please don’t ban me until December 31st 2999.
Oh that would be nice. Steam through wine isn’t great…
Quoted from dotfloat™
afaik Mac OS and Linux are pretty close. (Both are based off of Unix)
That’s not really true, it’s kind of like saying that beef and milk are one and the same because they both came from the same cow. Porting something from Mac to Linux is not a quick fix by any means.
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That’s not really true, it’s kind of like saying that beef and milk are one and the same because they both came from the same cow. Porting something from Mac to Linux is not a quick fix by any means.
It’s still easier to port from Mac to Linux than to port from Windows. :P
Both have the same filesystem (?), both use opengl, etc.
Quoted from Sketch
a reason to finally dump windows for good :D
Now that valve are porting source-engine games to Mac OS (and with the possibility that the games will work on linux as well), would this mean that it will be easier for other game developers to follow or accomplish this without a lot of work? Surely this should help other game developers in some way? It would be really nice to see more games natively running on linux. I’m hoping that other games will follow the source games.
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Ye I heard about that. :(
PFM, dunno if you’ve checked but the new steam doesn’t work in wine. :(
(Although if you’ve found a way to get it to work, i’d like to know :) )
P.S. Chris, they’re both unix, FreeBSD (which OSX is based on) can run Linux applications without any kind of emulation or modification. Seriously, admit when you don’t what you’re on about. :D
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Quoted from Skyride
FreeBSD (which OSX is based on)
as someone who actively helped develop another bsd distro (netbsd), i stopped reading here, since darwin pretty much only borrows the net stack and VFS functionality. you might want to read up on OPENSTEP, which pretty much will show you why you are wrong.
i point your phrases back at you.
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Quoted from Skyride
PFM, dunno if you’ve checked but the new steam doesn’t work in wine. :(
It works, I’m on it right now. Really laggy and glitchy, though. (Worse than old steam)
Correction, crossover games. (but that’s basically wine for noobs)
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I would switch to linux if this was the case.
I’d still like it if there was a halfway competent ATI driver for linux first.
Would hope this to be true then could use my linux 24/7 prefer it most of the time over windows
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