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#1 Spooky

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Posted 25 April 2012 - 01:50 AM

It's finally happening. While the Linux port of the Source engine and some of its games were already announced almost exactly two years ago, only rumours existed of a native port of the Steam platform itself, which VALVe always denied. But now VALVe invited Michael Larabel ‏from Phoronix and they talked about Steam coming to Linux (and other technical stuff about the ports):

https://twitter.com/...946350276816896
http://www.phoronix....mpfnudeln&num=1

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Right now the game they have been working on the most for their Linux client is Left 4 Dead 2. Why L4D2? Basically because it is a stable code-base to do for their initial porting. They have plans to bring their other titles to Linux as well as lobby other game developers using Steam and the Source Engine to bring their games to Linux -- natively. They are not using the Wine library or anything in terms of their native Linux Steam/Source engine work.


#2 Aegis Kleais

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Posted 25 April 2012 - 05:17 AM

I'm glad that Linux players will be getting some love, but I had to chime in that I always found it funny when people chose to spell Valve's name with all caps except for the 'E' at the end. They would make it lowercase like you did ('VALVe') but if you look at the actual value logo, ALL the letters are uppercase; the last is just in small caps and superscripted.

VALVE

Edited by Aegis Kleaisâ„¢, 25 April 2012 - 05:18 AM.


#3 Spooky

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Posted 25 April 2012 - 05:58 AM

You prove again how pedantic you can be, Aegis Posted Image.


Anyway, since superscripting a letter may not be possible in every forum (and even here it is not properly styled), it's more convenient to write a lower case 'e', if you desire to visually distinguish the company name from an actual valve. That's how I see it at least.

Edited by Spooky, 25 April 2012 - 11:03 PM.


#4 Aegis Kleais

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Posted 25 April 2012 - 02:19 PM

View PostSpooky, on 25 April 2012 - 05:58 AM, said:

You proof again how pedantic you can be, Aegis Posted Image.

And you "proved" that spelling is becoming a lost art form on today's youth.

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Posted 25 April 2012 - 11:03 PM

Darn.

#6 pursang

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Posted 26 April 2012 - 12:15 AM

View PostAegis Kleais™, on 25 April 2012 - 05:17 AM, said:

I'm glad that Linux players will be getting some love, but I had to chime in that I always found it funny when people chose to spell Valve's name with all caps except for the 'E' at the end. They would make it lowercase like you did ('VALVe') but if you look at the actual value logo, ALL the letters are uppercase; the last is just in small caps and superscripted.

VALVE


It's true though. If you're going to do something, at least do it the right way first. It's like me and people who spell out The Old Republic as "SWToR" instead of SWTOR or SW:TOR. It's not called Star Wars: The old Republic idiots!

/rant

Edited by pursang, 26 April 2012 - 12:15 AM.


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Posted 26 April 2012 - 05:14 PM

Oh snizzidy snap, batman!

The source games and Steam already worked pretty well thru wine, but this is great news.

I hope we get a Tux hat in TF2. :blink: Make it happen, Gaben!





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