Valve joins the Linux Foundation

Also of note, at the end:<p><i>&quot;The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation [1], a nonprofit consortium founded by AMD, ARM, Qualcomm and Samsung, among others to develop open-standard specifications for parallel computing, and startup Cloudius Systems are also joining the Linux Foundation today.&quot;</i><p>[1]:<a href="http://hsafoundation.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hsafoundation.com&#x2F;</a>

It will be interesting to see whether Valve can encourage the move to Linux gaming. Their biggest asset at this time is the distribution model of Steam, but that&#x27;s not sufficient to get the big publishers to develop for OSX, never mind Linux.<p>Edit: Valve&#x27;s game list: <a href="http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.valvesoftware.com&#x2F;games&#x2F;</a>

While this is great, its a bit sad that Valve is mostly doing all of this now, because they fear losing their dominance on windows to the native Store in Win 8.x<p>In the end its a win-win for everyone if it works out, just their motives are questionable.

If we introduced the Linus-Gates number by analogy with the Erdős-Bacon number [1] but for code, what would Gabe Newell&#x27;s Linus-Gates number be today?<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_number" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Bacon_numbe...</a>

I must say, I&#x27;m surprised by how many naysayers there are, considering Gabe thinks Linux is the future of gaming. There really is no technical reason why this can&#x27;t happen, we just need to make it happen...

Right now the only thing keeping me from running linux full time is the Adobe Master Collection (PS AI LR ID AE...)

And here it is, straight from the horse&#x27;s mouth: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8PMUvuHK4g" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=g8PMUvuHK4g</a>

DOSBox and Wine make Linux quite perfect for gaming.<p>Interestingly, for some games, running the Windows version in Wine works better than running a native Linux version they&#x27;ve made of the game. E.g. the native Linux version will complain that some library .so is not the correct version, or that it cannot connect to X, etc...

(Link)[0] to the actual announcement.<p>[0]: <a href="http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2013/12/cloudius-systems-hsa-foundation-and-valve-join-linux-foundation" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;news-media&#x2F;announcements&#x2F;2013...</a>

Until Linux fixes its desktop story I&#x27;m going to stick with my Windows PC.

These guys have so much smarts and common sense, congratulations guys. I&#x27;m enjoying Steam on Ubuntu, holding true to my promise to buy games and play them. Even bigger news for me, now I can look forward to purchasing a Steam Machine down the road. Sorry Roku, you&#x27;ve been great but you may have just gotten steam rolled.

I would love to have a bit more motivation to set up a linux partition. Getting pretty tired of developing on windows...

That video is painful to watch. Here&#x27;s the source of those video clips of Gabe: <a href="http://youtu.be/Gzn6E2m3otg?t=12s" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;Gzn6E2m3otg?t=12s</a> It&#x27;s from LinuxCon in September.

Personally I think the movement to Linux will greatly help Linux, but will hurt gamers. My opinion. We will see what the future holds.

What does this mean for Nvidia and AMD?

The one thing that has forced me keep Windows on my PC is the fact that most games require it. Hearing that such a large player in the gaming industry wants to move to Linux is really fantastic news.