Steam For Linux Officially Released

[Tehbugerz0r]

Best experienced on Ubuntu

Feb 14, 2013–Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the release of its Steam for Linux client. In celebration of the release, over 50 Linux titles are now 50-75% off until Thursday, February 21st at 10 AM PST.

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.”

“We’re huge fans of Linux. It’s like the indie OS–a perfect home for our indie game,” said Alen Ladavac, CTO of Croteam, creator of the Serious Sam franchise of games. “And who better to lead the charge into Linux gaming than Valve? With Steam distribution on Windows, Mac OS, and now Linux, plus the buy-once, play-anywhere promise of Steam Play, our games are available to everyone, regardless what type of computer they’re running. That’s huge.”

Team Fortress 2, the Free to Play game, is also now available on Steam for Linux. For a limited time, Steam users who play the game on Linux will automatically receive a free, exclusive in-game item: Tux, the Linux mascot, can be carried by any of the game’s classes and traded between players. Additional Valve titles available on Steam for Linux include Half-Life, Counter-Strike 1.6, and Counter-Strike: Source.

In addition to games, the Steam for Linux client includes Big Picture, the new mode of Steam designed for use with a TV and game controller. With Steam for Linux and Big Picture mode, Valve anticipates a growing number of gamers will use Steam in the living room.

Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games with over 50 million accounts around the world and over 2,000 titles offered. More details regarding Steam for Linux, including community discussion, official announcements and syndicated news can all be tracked on the Steam for Linux Community Hub at http://steamcommunity.com/linux.

As a gamer and Linux user, this is a big deal for me. Not only will we be able join one of the largest gaming communities today, but a greater awareness will be made of Linux, and hopefully this will eliminate the myth that Linux is not a suitable gaming platform.

Steam for Linux Beta has been publicly available for a few months now, but it seemed a bit underground to me, but right now our favourite penguin himself can be easily seen on the steam website.


Hopefully we will see official support for more distributions in the future, but this is good enough for now.

Still don't give a damn about Linux? Well I'll mention there's good news for happy Windows and Mac OS users too. Until next Friday, several games that are available for Linux are on sale with 50-75% off, including but not limited to Counter Strike: Source, Half Life 1, World of Goo and Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
I bought $45 worth of games for only $11.25.

[jrgp]

and, if Wine is to be believed, from any OS).

What?

And yeah steam on ubuntu is great. I'll come a little when hl2, portal, and others are linux official.

[Tehbugerz0r]

and, if Wine is to be believed, from any OS).

What?

Oops, removed.

And yeah steam on ubuntu is great. I'll come a little when hl2, portal, and others are linux official.

On Ubuntu? It works on every distro I know of.
I'm sure those games will be out soon. Iäve already decided to delete my Windows XP partition, as Steam was the only reason I kept it.

[jrgp]

On Ubuntu? It works on every distro I know of.
I'm sure those games will be out soon. Iäve already decided to delete my Windows XP partition, as Steam was the only reason I kept it.

Are those other distros Ubuntu derivitives?

My desktop, debian unstable:

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joe@adore:~$ steam
Running Steam on debian 7.0 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
/home/joe/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/joe/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6)
/home/joe/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/joe/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6)
Installing bootstrap /home/joe/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz
Running Steam on debian 7.0 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/joe/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
/home/joe/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/joe/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6)
/home/joe/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/joe/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6)
joe@adore:~$

Even though the .deb installs without issue, the binary is compiled against a newer version of glibc that debian unstable ships with.

[Tehbugerz0r]

On Ubuntu? It works on every distro I know of.
I'm sure those games will be out soon. Iwrongkeyboardlayoutfailve already decided to delete my Windows XP partition, as Steam was the only reason I kept it.

Are those other distros Ubuntu derivitives?

My desktop, debian unstable:

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Even though the .deb installs without issue, the binary is compiled against a newer version of glibc that debian unstable ships with.

It doesn't work right out of the box, but I know people have got it to work, though you may have to google around for the solution. Unfortunately, you'll probably have to install some stuff. This may help judging from the title, though I'm unsure after a quick scrollthrough.

Edit: Upon reflection, I suppose you could say it's Steam for Ubuntu.
Edit2:

It works on every distro I know of.

Are those other distros Ubuntu derivitives?

Nicely hidden insult.

[Fawkzy]

this is it

I stop using windows

come to daddy, multilib arch linux! time to give you a brand new life.

[jrgp]

Edit: Upon reflection, I suppose you could say it's Steam for Ubuntu.
Edit2:

It works on every distro I know of.

Are those other distros Ubuntu derivitives?

Nicely hidden insult.

It *is* steam for Ubuntu. It is possible to monkey rig it to work on other systems (such as Debian), but I don't have nearly the amount of patience or motivation for that right now. As it stands, my desktop triple boots win7, ubuntu, and debian, and I find myself almost exclusively using the Debian install. I probably won't have motivation to boot to Ubuntu until Half Life 2 is on Steam.

And I wasn't trying to insult you with the remark about other distros, it just seemed like a plausible assumption as Steam for Ubuntu might run out of the box on ubuntu derivatives that just add packages and some polish (like Mint).

[Blacksheepboy]

Steam is getting to be universal.