{"id":46592,"date":"2012-10-29T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46592"},"modified":"2012-10-29T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T14:23:46","slug":"valve-launches-steam-for-linux-beta-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46592-valve-launches-steam-for-linux-beta-applications","title":{"rendered":"Valve launches Steam for Linux beta applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a Linux user? Have you ever wanted to install Steam and play something that isn&#8217;t an open-sourced port of Doom? <em>Your dreams have come true.<\/em> Valve is prepping to launch the Steam for Linux beta, and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valvesoftware.com\/linuxsurvey.php\" target=\"_blank\">currently accepting applications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are apparently only 1,000 spaces on the backstage guest list, and Valve is looking specifically for &#8220;experienced Linux users&#8221;, which may or may not include a high superiority and smugness quotient. I&#8217;m just kidding, but you&#8217;d better be able to compile your own kernel from source. <em>Maybe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, Linux users have had to use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wine_%28software%29\" target=\"_blank\">Wine<\/a>&#8216;s compatibility layer to run the Windows version of Steam, which obviously isn&#8217;t quite ideal. Steam for Linux will be more or less exactly the same as it is on PC and Mac, and includes the Steam shop.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valvesoftware.com\/linuxsurvey.php\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41425-left-4-dead-2-is-valves-first-linux-game.html\">Left 4 Dead 2 is Valve\u2019s first Linux game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/36693-steam-is-coming-to-linux-valve-confirms.html\">Steam is coming to Linux, Valve confirms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/35222-valve-on-the-hunt-for-linux-devs.html\">Valve on the hunt for Linux devs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/31078-valve-developing-steam-for-linux.html\">Valve developing Steam client for Linux?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they want YOU to try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":46605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2065,85,7467,697],"class_list":["post-46592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-linux","tag-steam","tag-steam-for-linux","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46609,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46592\/revisions\/46609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}