Valve Looking to Port Games to Linux? [Slashdot]

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Martin Bozic writes "Valve is apparently looking for senior engineers to port games to Linux. They have an ad up on the official site looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in 'systems engineering designing and developing communications software and hardware solutions including resolving problems surrounding real-time and non real time PC- based systems using C++ and network programming algorithms and their interaction with physical devices.' One of the lines under the job description is the simple statement: 'Port Windows-based games to the Linux platform.'" No reason to get excited about this before they make an official announcement; while this may eventually mean Half-Life 2 running under Linux, they may just want penguin-based folks to play Peggle.Read more of this story (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/14/1314259&from=rss) at Slashdot.
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[scooterb23]

No reason to get excited about this before they make an official announcement; while this may eventually mean Half-Life 2 running under Linux, they may just want penguin-based folks to play Peggle.


Hey, more Peggle players can only be a good thing.

[CosmicMonkey]

This is excellent news. Along with major retailers such as Dell selling desktops/laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed, it can only bring hope for the future.

Imagine everyone, a future without Windows. A future where the world at large get some sense and only uses *nix based OS. I can dream.....

[Emuaust]

Well if linux can get better support for gaming, then there goes MS, I mean lets face it
gaming is the major reason you have a windows based OS.

Valve might just be the start...