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Steam on Linux to go out in beta this month.

2 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/steam-on-linux-to-go-out-in-beta-this-month.164740/

Desmond
Desmond Original post #1
Oct 15, 2012 at 6:17 AM
According to the latest update on the Steam Linux blog :

Things have been going well. We will be having an internal beta starting next week, and a private external beta for 1,000 users sometime in October.

The private external beta will include:

Steam
One Valve game
Support for Ubuntu 12.04 and above
It will not yet include:

Big Picture mode
Additional Valve games
For existing Linux users, the external private beta is a good release for seeing where we are in running our games on Linux. We will be using a sign up page for the external beta. Information about the sign up will be announced in a future post.

For those new to Linux, we recommend waiting for a subsequent release where more features are implemented along with improvements to the user install experience.

I think they ought to make their own distro as well.
gameranand
Oct 15, 2012 at 8:04 AM
Read about it couple months ago, really nice that its finally coming.