Wine looses a bit gaming and wins mobility?

[Remco]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 09:24, Edward Savage <epssyis at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is a shame that it is just a rumor but really that's all it's been
> for the last half decade.  Plus, Phoronix refuses to release this
> binary their meant to have found which I tend to think means they
> don't have it.  Steam for Linux would really be a huge win for native
> gaming but from Valves point of view it might be too risky?

The binary was not given to Phoronix. They found a link to the Linux
version in a shell script for the Mac version. It is still available,
and the binaries are periodically updated by Valve.

http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_linux

If you run the following shell code in an empty directory, it will
download and fix a bug the Linux Steam client so that it will actually
show a (nonworking) GUI. You'll need bspatch installed for this to
work.

http://pastie.org/private/4ryiocqxbea8uq8dgexg

All of this clearly shows that Valve is working on a Linux GUI of the
Steam store, and not a Linux server tool. I ask that you don't do any
further hacking on these binaries, nor host them yourself, because
this is not free software. You can't just redistribute it. Besides,
the goal was to investigate whether Valve was working on Steam for
Linux, there's nothing more to see here.

-- 
Remco