Steam Now Has Linux Beta Access

[John P. Myers]

http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1747660173332716773

[Fire$torm]

This could be the "Thing" that ends up killing M$.... :D

[zombie67]

Steam?

[Duke of Buckingham]

$team

http://media.npr.org/assets/blogs/health/images/2010/04/iceland_wide-9863980a65cd3cb83b37209341284e41f2034fe1-s51.jpg

[trigggl]

Would this be the same thing? (found in Gentoo)


emerge -s steam
Searching...
[ Results for search key : steam ]
[ Applications found : 4 ]

* games-server/halflife-steam [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 2.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 3,431 kB
Homepage: http://www.steampowered.com/
Description: client for Valve Software's Steam content delivery program
License: ValveServer GPL-2

* kde-misc/steamcompanion
Latest version available: 0.5.4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 52 kB
Homepage: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Steam+Companion?content=141713
Description: Connector for web Steam service from Valve.
License: GPL-2


emerge -vp halflife-steam

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N *] games-server/halflife-steam-2.0 3,432 kB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 3,432 kB

[Fire$torm]

Would this be the same thing? (found in Gentoo)


emerge -s steam
Searching...
[ Results for search key : steam ]
[ Applications found : 4 ]

* games-server/halflife-steam [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 2.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 3,431 kB
Homepage: http://www.steampowered.com/
Description: client for Valve Software's Steam content delivery program
License: ValveServer GPL-2

* kde-misc/steamcompanion
Latest version available: 0.5.4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 52 kB
Homepage: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Steam+Companion?content=141713
Description: Connector for web Steam service from Valve.
License: GPL-2


emerge -vp halflife-steam

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N *] games-server/halflife-steam-2.0 3,432 kB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 3,432 kB


Yep, that be it. Steam is a game software distribution system but until recently was for Windows only. It all started with the game Half-Life (and mods: Counter Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, etc...) developed by Valve Corporation.

[Duke of Buckingham]

Would this be the same thing? (found in Gentoo)


emerge -s steam
Searching...
[ Results for search key : steam ]
[ Applications found : 4 ]

* games-server/halflife-steam [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 2.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 3,431 kB
Homepage: http://www.steampowered.com/
Description: client for Valve Software's Steam content delivery program
License: ValveServer GPL-2

* kde-misc/steamcompanion
Latest version available: 0.5.4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 52 kB
Homepage: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Steam+Companion?content=141713
Description: Connector for web Steam service from Valve.
License: GPL-2


emerge -vp halflife-steam

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N *] games-server/halflife-steam-2.0 3,432 kB

Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 3,432 kB



Yep, that be it. Steam is a game software distribution system but until recently was for Windows only. It all started with the game Half-Life (and mods: Counter Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, etc...) developed by Valve Corporation.


:confused: Yeha, thanks I understand it all. :mad:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BsDb_YdOe-U/UFTVCDga5FI/AAAAAAAACrY/n34tTGJqWbU/s1600/Beaker_Bunsen_Smoking+Head.jpg

[coronicus]

This is good news does this mean its actually working for those titles?? and anyone have any benchmarks to see how it compares.

[Fire$torm]

This is good news does this mean its actually working for those titles?? and anyone have any benchmarks to see how it compares.

Not I says me. I may try it on my Pentium M lappy just to see.

[John P. Myers]

This is good news does this mean its actually working for those titles?? and anyone have any benchmarks to see how it compares.

Quoting: Available for download at www.geforce.com, the new R310 drivers were also thoroughly tested with Steam for Linux, the extension of Valve's phenomenally popular Steam gaming platform that officially opened to gamers starting today. ... Comparing 304.51 driver performance of 142.7 fps versus 310.14 driver performance of 301.4 fps in beta build of Left for Dead 2. All tests run on the same system using Intel Core i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz with 8 GB memory, GeForce GTX 680 and Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit.

Sounds impressive so far :p

[John P. Myers]

Available games:

Edited again: here's a better list http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/

Seems to be ~400 games available