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Valve: no plans to bring Steam to Linux


	Quote: Close scrutiny of the Steam port for Mac OS X led to the discovery of evidence which suggested that a Linux version might be coming soon. Sadly, Valve marketing vice president Doug Lombardi dispelled these suspicions in a recent interview during which he confirmed that the company is not actively working on Steam for Linux.

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	Quote: Linux hardware news site Phoronix discovered that a shell script in the Mac OS X version of Steam includes a conditional expression that checks to see if the user is running Linux.

Erm, anyone with enough curiosity (or who sets shell scripts to open with a text editor rather than a shell) would have founf that out, I'm not sure why they are crediting a news site...


	Quote: It's also worth noting that a big chunk of Linux desktop installations are probably never going to be used for gaming (netbooks that don't have sufficient hardware capabilities, university computer labs, free software enthusiasts who are ideologically disinclined to purchase proprietary software).

Alas, I feel that last point is somewhat true, though the majority of Linux home users (I'd like to think) don't care they are using a FOSS OS and would rather run applications that nothing at all...

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