http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/ Engadget Comments for Screenshots emerge of Steam Linux client, BeOS wonders if it's next http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/It doesn't matter if it only runs 1/20 of the games on Steam. It's still means there will be more major production games than there are now.]]>May 3rd 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/The games themselves still have to be written for Linux.]]>May 3rd 2010 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
http://store.steampowered.com/

Even if it runs half the games from there... it'll be a big leap for Linux. ]]>May 3rd 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
iPhone OS game devs are grinding their teeth at you right now!]]>May 3rd 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
Besides it's highly like that the many independent game developers that already have Linux versions of their games, but also have their Windows versions on Steam, would also make their Linux versions available via Steam - for example, World of Goo.

It's important to consider this will finally create a proper channel over which publishers/developers can distribute their Linux versions - some of which may have not bothered with a Linux version primarily for that reason. Take Enemy Territory: QUAKE WARS for example - they have a Linux version, but didn't get the Linux installer finished in time to include it on their retail discs, so instead the installer (which pulls content from the game disc) on what many consumers would consider a 'backstage' part of their website - with Steam, they could easily throw together the Linux version and upload it to Steam as the Linux version, making it as easy to install via Steam on Linux as it is on Windows.]]>May 3rd 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
Now I know. :)]]>May 3rd 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_linux

I am mostly unfamiliar with all things Linux, but isn't that fact that the link works give this claim some merit?

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I thought I would just point that out...]]>May 3rd 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/Your comment should be highly ranked.]]>May 3rd 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
so as usual OSX and Linux get to be playing games using a 6 year old highly outdated engine.

Enjoy guys!!!

(ever stop and think maybe some Devs aren't anti-Microsoft zealots and enjoy the awesome Direct X APIs?]]>May 3rd 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_linux.zip.52367793a26b83abc84871770277e1b8d77608bc).

Get rid of the MD5 at the end of filename then uncompress and I guarantee it will remove any skepticism!

e.g. i just found an HTML page which says:

"Advanced users can also run a Dedicated Server under the Linux operating system. Click here to download the Linux version."

and clicking on the "here" bit takes you to the normal steam download page.

THIS IS REAL PEOPLE!]]>May 3rd 2010 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
display dialog "Steam is only supported on Intel-based Macs." buttons "Exit" default button 1 with title "Unsupported Architecture" with icon stop

display dialog "Steam Requires OSX 10.5 or greater" buttons "Exit" default button 1 with title "Unsupported Operating System" with icon stop

But you're right, there are some hardcoded Linux32 references in there]]>May 3rd 2010 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/By all means though, if this happens then this is absolutely excellent.]]>May 3rd 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
I WANT MY LINUX STEAM!]]>May 3rd 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
This is just a confirmation that PC gaming is dying. The PC userbase is so low, Steam has to go out scouring the bottom of the barrel for whatever usebase is left in other platforms. I don't think they will get very far as the non-windows users will most likely have bought a console for their gaming needs anyway.]]>May 3rd 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
You must like things with pretty buttons rather than functionality and customization. ]]>May 3rd 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/:(]]>May 3rd 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
Have you ever considered the fact that you might not be capable of it at all? ]]>May 3rd 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
I'm sure Jesus Diaz could, but then again, he's an idiot.]]>May 4th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
Yup, definitely Linux.]]>May 3rd 2010 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
I much prefer one meaningless error.]]>May 3rd 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
Heh, you want cryptic? How about old Mac OS, where the errors were usually just a number.

"Error -105." Well WTF is that supposed to mean?

At least Linux programs usually attempt to tell you what specifically didn't work. If you don't understand what "Assertion Failed: implement CLinuxFont" means (and I admit, I don't either, but that's not the point) then there's not much to be done about that.]]>May 3rd 2010 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
At least try Ubuntu sometime. You'll be surprised.]]>May 3rd 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
Maybe, but I don't think that's what this is. Some of the text specifically mentions "Linux fonts" and such. Plus the title of the terminal window indicates the program executing is "Steam Update." If it was Wine I would expect the name of the program would just read "Wine."]]>May 3rd 2010 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/Wine is an emulator, which works as a translator for your machine to make a Windows type program behave and pretend to be a Linux one. This requires extra work on machine's part to first translate the program and then run it. Think about it like trying to talk to someone through some sort of translator, obviously extra effort is required to do so. It is wasteful and would be much less process intensive if the program ran in a native language for the OS, which means you could run the game with the same amount of hardware as a windows machine without any loss in performance (possibly more performance would be gained because it is on a linux box and not a windows one).
Therefore it is better for the end user to have source and steam run natively on linux than emulated, it would be foolish and closed-minded to say "they can just use a second hand translator (no offence wine) to use our product, golly, if it works, why make their live's easier to make it run native to their system."]]>May 3rd 2010 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/Well.. Not quite. Your point is perfectly accurate for emulation software.
But Wine is not emulation software. The name is a bacronym. So WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator".

An emulator mimics everything from the hardware up to the desktop environment where applicable. WINE doesn't need to do all that. It just has to intercept the calls the program makes to the Windows hardware and software facilities, and translate them to the Linux version. Far less work. So the performance hit is nowhere near the same.
If WINE were actually emulating Windows, they might have a lot of problems with Microsoft's lawyers. But they basically look at the calls coming from programs which are not MS property, and work out the Linux equivalent, which is also not Microsoft property. Thus avoiding any infringement of Windows owned protocols.

Instead of two people talking thorough an interpretor, it's more like two people using a common second language. Not quite as easy and automatic as both speaking their first language, but still useful. ]]>May 4th 2010 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 4th 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/Ha TELL that to Google. They will laugh for years]]>May 3rd 2010 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/
Ok, I'll just head to the "Install other OS" option...wait, what!?]]>May 3rd 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/Even if there was a Linux version of Stream it wouldn't run on the PS3. Thank Sony for using the PowerPC chip design.]]>May 3rd 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/May 3rd 2010 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/03/screenshots-emerge-of-steam-linux-client-beos-wonders-if-its-n/YELLOW DOG Linux is designed to run on PPC Arquitectur ]]>May 3rd 2010 11:37PM