All the fun stuff always happens when I’m at work. 😛 Apparently Steam announced today “SteamOS” their own Linux Operating System. Making it easier for people to create their own Steam based entertainment systems if they so choose to. This is an excellent idea and Valve doesn’t really have anything …
Gabe Newell made an appearance at LinuxCon in New Orleans: In the video he makes an interesting point about today’s users being more like developers. Thanks to Valve people can make their own games with the Source Engine, game modes, game content for their favorite Steam Workshop games and of …
There has been quite a bit of controversy regarding the Tux item released to people who use Linux distros. People have been “faking” linux installs to get the item and Valve is paying attention. Well I didn’t personally but, this is something that I was curious about and, a friend …
Been having one of those sleepy days today. Pretty much just played around in Ubuntu seeing what I could install via synaptic. I decided to install DOSBox since I know I’ll have multiple uses for it. Then I installed a game called OpenArena which is Open Sourced Quake 3 basically. …
Been kicking it with Linux a bit more since I’ve gotten my DAC working perfectly. Last night’s stress test was Serious Sam 3, which was pretty laggy in some places compared to my Windows 7 install of it. TF2 was more optimized but still had a bit of trouble on …
Logged into Ubuntu today to test out my preamp with new cables (works great btw! I sound a bit different, but that’s to be expected), and found out about this. Tux comes in 3 different styles. Regular, Demoman, and Pyro.
Steam Linux Beta is now an open beta! Download your .deb file and have fun with it! 😀 :linux:
If you like the idea of gaming under linux you may want to consider reading this article. Things have been going well. We will be having an internal beta starting next week, and a private external beta for 1,000 users sometime in October. The private external beta will include: Steam …