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Steam for Linux Beta Finally Promoted to Stable, Download Now

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http://news.softpedia.com – Steam for Linux has been in the Beta stages for some time now, but Valve has released the final version of this branch. Even if the final version was made available for the public, the development branch continued to stride on and Valve has finally included all the changes from the Beta into the stable branch. This means that for now, at least, there is only one Steam for Linux version. The Opt-in for the Beta will still be available for anyone wanting to be on the bl... (read more) (IT news)

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Valve has released an update for their Steam for Linux client, integrating a couple of Beta versions launched in the past weeks.

The development for Steam is usually done in the Beta branch and pushed at a later date into the stable version.

Highlights of the new Steam for Linux stable update:

• The Auto-Cloud was being erroneously disabled for some games.

Steam for Linux has been officially released for a while now, but the development on the beta branch continues and Valve is adding more features and fixes.Highlights of Steam for Linux Beta:• The web page load indicator has been fixed;• steam://flushconfig URL command has been added, which clears the local Steam client configuration;• The runtime been updated with the final SDL 2.0

Valve has launched yet another Beta version for its Steam for Linux client, this time with just a few minor fixes and improvements.After a development version garners sufficient changes, Valve promotes that version to stable.

Valve has launched yet another Beta version for its Steam for Linux client, this time with just a few minor fixes and improvements.

After a development version garners sufficient changes, Valve promotes that version to stable.

Valve has launched yet another Beta version for its Steam for Linux client, this time with just a few minor fixes and improvements.After a development version garners sufficient changes, Valve promotes that version to stable.

Valve has launched yet another Beta version for its Steam for Linux client, this time with just a few minor fixes and improvements.

After a development version garners sufficient changes, Valve promotes it to stable.

After the launch of Steam Linux beta, you may have seen a big Tux logo on Steam client download page.

When visiting Steam download page from a web browser running on a Linux based OS, you are pointed to Linux version of Steam and a promo ad about Steam Linux beta is shown.

However, Valve is now showing the same page to Windows users as well, encouraging them to

CroTeam has posted a status on Facebook confirming that Linux version of Serious Sam 3: BFE will be included with Portal and Team Fortress 2 in upcoming beta launch of Steam for Linux.

Its not clear if they meant public beta launch or the closed beta testing which will start soon for 1,000 lucky users.