Does this mean anything for Half-Life on a Mac?
Finally!! Us Mac users are used to waiting a little longer than PC users to get a compatible version of the game, but 15 years must be some kind of record.
Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux
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#12This is so amazing, but I'm really hoping that they release a way for mod developers to recompile their mods to work... Do they have the multiplayer aspects working? Obligatory plug for my favourite HL1 mod: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/ Edit: Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR ( http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/ ), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message "Not Marked fo…
You surely meant http://www.dayofdefeat.com/
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#13Does this mean anything for Half-Life on a Mac?
I just fired up Steam and now I'm downloading HL for Mac.
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#14So, stating the obvious, this was only done because the Steam Box will run on a Linux variant, right?
1. Why is that obvious?
2. "only?
3. Why do people care? Not necessarily you, but commenters on reddit, The Verge and others are practically angry at Valve supporting Linux.
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#15Nowadays, you might want to play Black Mesa instead: http://www.blackmesasource.com
It's officially just for Windows, but it runs fine in Wine.
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#16So, stating the obvious, this was only done because the Steam Box will run on a Linux variant, right?
Yes, basically.
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#17This is so amazing, but I'm really hoping that they release a way for mod developers to recompile their mods to work... Do they have the multiplayer aspects working? Obligatory plug for my favourite HL1 mod: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/ Edit: Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR ( http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/ ), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message "Not Marked fo…
Natural Selection was probably the funnest mod (with CS being my favourite). I've been trying to find reviews on NS2 from those that actually played the original - any chance you've given NS2 a go?
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#18So, stating the obvious, this was only done because the Steam Box will run on a Linux variant, right?
1. Why is that obvious? 2. "only? 3. Why do people care? Not necessarily you, but commenters on reddit, The Verge and others are practically angry at Valve supporting Linux.
I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but I get the impression that Linux-on-the-desktop peaked a couple of years ago, Now, with the Unity/Gnome 3/Mint/etc. mess, the momentum Ubuntu had has fragmented into several diverging paths. It seems harder now to recommend one single Linux distribution for the average user than it was two years ago.
On top of that, the PC itself seems to have peaked. It's hard to think that Valve sees this as the right time to pour resources into PC gaming on Linux. It's much more likely to have something to do with the console we know they're working on.
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#20Yes! Counter-Strike next please.