Valve focuses in first instance on Ubuntu 12.04 with the Linux port of Steam and Left 4 Dead 2. The Linux team of the game developer has Steam and Left 4 Dead running and wants the same functionality and performance as the Windows versions.
Valve focuses first on Ubuntu because the development easier and faster with a defined test environment of a single distribution. In addition, for Ubuntu selected because this is a popular distribution.
The progress of the Steam, and Left 4 Dead 2-the port to Linux will be tracked on a new blog of the gamedeveloper. The announcements follow after the confirmation that Valve is working on Linux versions during a visit by site Phoronix in april.
The team is working to make the Linux variants not to let you do it for the versions for Windows. So Steam on Linux has all of the functionality that Microsoft’s operating system is available. According to Valve working most of the functions already, and will soon be a internal beta started to automatically update and compatibility testing.
Because the Steam client no games very little added value, it works Valve to a port of Left 4 Dead 2. Although the horrorspel for some time now natively runs under Linux, there still is work to be done to improve the performance. The team wants to eventually make the Linux port of the game is just as good performance as on Windows.
When the Linux version of Steam and Left 4 Dead 2 will appear, is not yet known. However, promises Valve after Left 4 Dead 2 other games from its catalogue to Linux.
