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Steam for Linux Leaves Beta

[Feb 14, 2013, 3:42 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Valve announces the official release of Steam for Linux, supported by a Steam for Linux Community Hub and a sale where over 50 Linux titles are now 50-75% off. Here's word:

The Steam client is now available to download for free from the Ubuntu Software Center. Ubuntu is the most popular distribution of Linux used by millions of people globally and known for its well-designed, easy-to-use customer experience.

“The introduction of Steam to Ubuntu demonstrates growing demand for open systems from gamers and game developers,” said David Pitkin, Director of Consumer Applications at Canonical. “We expect a growing number of game developers to include Ubuntu among their target platforms. We’re looking forward to seeing AAA games developed with Ubuntu in mind as part of a multi-platform day and date release on Steam.”

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Re: Steam for Linux Leaves Beta

Feb 14, 2013, 19:02

Grokk

crypto wrote on Feb 14, 2013, 18:40: SirKnight wrote on Feb 14, 2013, 15:58: The NVIDIA linux driver is closed and not free ... Drivers are free. He meant the other free. The drivers might not actually cost anything, but you're still installing a compiled product with proprietary code in it. Eg: You're able to use them without spending any money, but you cannot modify / reverse engineer or do other things to make it better or different.

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Comment [quote="Grokk"Feb 14, 2013, 19:02][quote="crypto"Feb 14, 2013, 18:40][quote="SirKnight"Feb 14, 2013, 15:58]The NVIDIA linux driver is closed and not free ... [/quote] Drivers are free. [/quote] He meant the other free. The drivers might not actually cost anything, but you're still installing a compiled product with proprietary code in it. Eg: You're able to use them without spending any money, but you cannot modify / reverse engineer or do other things to make it better or different. [/quote]

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