Rumors have surfaced showing that Steam might soon be coming to Linux. In a recent beta release of Steam for the Mac, code mentioning Linux was found in the launcher script:
elif [ “$UNAME” == “Linux” ]; then
PLATFORM=linux32
# prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”${STEAMROOT}”/${PLATFORM}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi
This excerpt comes from a piece of code, Phoronix says, which is used to launch Steam and the correct libraries for the client’s operating system. Since the word “Linux” is clearly displayed here, it would point to the probability that Valve is developing a client for the open source platform.
No other code is currently available to confirm the hypothesis, but Linux enthusiasts might not want to hold their breath, as an actual release of a client for their OS is likely months away.
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