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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:12 pm
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http://hexus.net/gaming/news/industry/5 ... -software/And, in true Valve style, log into TF2 on Linux before March 1st to get a wearable Tux penguin. I already have mine 
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:10 pm
Posts: 5490
Location: just behind you!
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the year of linux has arrives, or was that last year, or the year before or....
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
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Next year. It's always next year.
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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Linux is currently pwning the mobile space.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
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It's been pwning pretty much everything with a processor for many years, from busy-box routers and set top boxes to heavy iron servers. It's just "the desktop" which always seems to be coming "next year". As I commented on the news thread, I do think the release of Steam is a very significant milestone in that quest. Of course it needs support from developers, but now there's an easy way to distribute I believe that will come. There's already a good number available, including Half Life and Counter Strike for example: http://store.steampowered.com/browse/linux/_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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apart from CS and HL there is nothing that would encourage me to use linux again. _________________Finally joined Flickr
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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This is week 1. It's not a bad start. _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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Indeed. When the Mac version of Steam launched it had little other than Valve titles on it (although to be fair it did have Portal 2 which was pretty new at that time). It'll almost certainly become the distribution method of choice for people who were making Linux games anyway, the question is whether it's existence will attract big name developers to make linux ports to sell through it. That's the bit that only time will tell.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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It's always a chicken-egg problem. I'm hoping that porting to Linux isn't actually that much work any more, so even selling a few hundred copies would recoup the cost and gain favour with the community.
_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
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 There were 57 titles at launch, including Portal - Portal 2 didn't ship until 2011. For the curious: And Yet It Moves
Atlantis Sky Patrol
Bejeweled 2 Deluxe
Bob Came in Pieces
Bookworm Deluxe
Braid
Brainpipe
Chocolatier: Decadence by Design
Chuzzle Deluxe
City of Heroes: Architect Edition
Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
Cooking Dash
Diaper Dash
The Dig
Diner Dash: Hometown Hero
DinerTown Detective Agency
DinerTown Tycoon
Dream Chronicles: The Chosen Child
Escape Rosecliff Island
Fairway Solitaire
Fitness Dash
Football Manager 10
Galcon Fusion
Gemini Lost
Guns of Icarus
Hotel Dash Suite Success
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
KrissX
Loom
Luxor
Luxor 3
Luxor: Mahjong
Machinarium
Mahjong Roadshow
Max and the Magic Marker
My Tribe
The Nightshift Code
Nightshift Legacy: The Jaguar's Eye
Parking Dash
Peggle Deluxe
Peggle Nights
Portal
Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery
Quantz
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse
Tales of Monkey Island Season 1
Toki Tori
Torchlight
Trijinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery
Unwell Mel
Valarie Porter and the Scarlett Scandal
Wandering Willows
Wedding Dash 2: Rings Around the World
World of Goo
Zenerchi
Zuma Deluxe
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