Linux Sysadmin notes, utilities and apps
As you can probably imagine, Steam in Linux issues are related to video drivers. Thus, Valve wants to be ensured that only with the latest binary blob you’ll be able to play Steam games into Ubuntu. So, if you want to become Steam compatible you have to install proprietary nVIDIA or AMD drivers into your … Read more
Great news from Valve’s Linux blog, since these guys are not joking around. Seriously, there are going to release the “most wanted” Steam beta in Linux. The version will be only available in Ubuntu 12.04. Notice that it will be closed beta, not public, meaning that Valve is going to send Steam beta only to … Read more
The record-breaking Gamescom 2012 event has started on Wednesday August 15th, 2012, and will run until Sunday August 19th. It is sad but true Valve hasn’t make any plans for Half-Life 3 presentation as it was expected, hence lot’s of people got disappointed after this. Specifically, Valve’s VP of marketing Doug Lombardi reported: [highlight color=”yellow”]We will … Read more
A few days ago in SIGGRAPH 12 conference, Valve explained how the Linux version of Left 4 Dead 2 outperforms Windows. Given a speech called “From 6 to 300 FPS” by Mr.Rich, Valve made clear that they don’t follow the proper programming design (writing the whole high level API from scratch) but following another (more … Read more
The 39th Conference and Exhibition for Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (also known as SIGGRAPH 2012) was held in Los Angeles during 5-9 August. It’s a great place for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics and interactive techniques, while paper authors provide brief overviews of their work in the fast forward sessions. But this … Read more
As I wrote in a previous post, gaming on Linux has started becoming the new platform for the gaming industry. As of Jul. 16 2012, this is becoming even more and more reality, as Valve, the company behind Steam, has announced that Steam for Linux is coming.