Valve's Steam & Games Coming To Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Valve's Steam and Source Engine-based games are coming to Linux. Michael from well known site Phoronix.com has been invited to Valve's office and was able to spend a day with the developers and Gabe Newell himself. He is confirming the rumors about Linux ports from Valve, and has been able to play the games and work the developers himself. Attached in the article are pictures from Valve's offices with games running on Linux."

I don't care

[Sav1or]

I don't care if it's open source or not, just as long as i can play my beloved counter strike at a decent fps and not have to switch back to windows. Anyone who says different can just suck on it

Steam with Whitelisted Wine?

[Zombie Ryushu]

I wonder if this Steam Linux client will act like PlayOnLinux and download Whitelisted Wine Clients that Steam won't flag as "cheating." I say this because I have a family member that keeps one Windows 7 machine just because he plays Left 4 Dead 2, and Steam once banned a whole sloth of Wine Users because their DLL files did not match the database Steam had.

Supposedly, Steam keeps a whitelist of known Wine DLLs to prevent this.

Re:It has come!

[Anonymous Coward]

Baby steps. This is just the beginning. Indy devels are all over Steam. How much extra work to make their Steam Mac ports work under Linux?
As much as I love the new direction Windows has been going in(excluding Metro), Opensource is the future. RedHat business model for everyone!

Is it DRM? I didn't notice.

[Gordonjcp]

I just installed Steam under wine, and it worked. I bought HL2, and it worked. Then a terrible thing happened, and I accidentally the whole .wine directory.

Guess what happened when I reinstalled Steam again? The first time I fired it up, it popped up a little message saying that it couldn't see the installs of all the games I'd bought, and would I like it to go and download them again? Well yes, of course I would, so I clicked "OK", had a cup of tea, and boom, HL2 just plain worked, again.

This isn't like anything else I've seen of DRM. This is just plain handy.

Re:Steam Box OS is Linux?

[GuerillaRadio]

Shuttleworth recently said the target for Ubuntu was 200 million users in four years and hinted at some upcoming hardware partnerships...

What if the SteamBox's official OS is going to be Ubuntu and Steam is to be heavily integrated into Unity?

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Re:Finally!

[neros1x]

You're not kidding. Slackware 9 was my introduction to Linux, and after accidentally deleting my Windows partition, it was all I had. It took 2 weeks just to figure out how to configure my DSL connection. Two of the best weeks I ever had, I might add.