Steam for Ubuntu has been finally announced by Valve on its official blog, giving rest to all the rumors that have been circulating in past few months.
In the blog post titled 'Steam'd Penguins', lots of details on their Linux plans were revealed. Valve is looking to strengthen the gaming scene on Linux, both for players and developers.
Valve, developers and publishers of games such as Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2, have just announced the launch of a limited access Beta for its new Steam for Linux client.The announcement for the official Steam for Linux client is not actually a surprise because Nvidia spilled the beans a few hours earlier, in an official commun... (read more)
Valve announced few days back that Steam for Linux beta testing will start in October. Since then, many new Linux games have been added to Steam database, including Team Fortress 2.
Now official Steam for Linux community group has been launched, indicating that Steam Linux Beta release is imminent.
Finally, Valve has the pleasure of releasing the Portal game for all Linux operating systems, through the Steam platform. Valve officially released the Portal game back in 2007, along with Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2.
Back in July, Valve started a blog and gave exciting news of Steam being ported over to Linux. This involved porting of Valve’s Steam client and some game titles over to Ubuntu Linux. On making the port, it was seen that Left4Dead 2 runs faster on Linux at a higher FPS, than on Windows.
Steam for Linux is getting closer to an official launch and Valve has now included a Linux tab into the client.
Valve is in high gear and they are working hard to make Steam for Linux a reality, probably by the end of year.
Steam for Linux was finally launched by Valve, although for now it’s just the Beta client and only a handful of people have access to it. When Valve first announced that its Steam client will be available for Linux, a lot of users have asked themselves if there will be any significant differences between this version and the other ones released ... (read more)
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
The latest Steam for Linux Beta update has implemented a nice touch-up from Valve and the client now blending perfectly with Unity.
Some Steam for Linux users have complained that Valve's client indicator in Ubuntu is not blending well with Unity.
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