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Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux

by pook1e on 1/25/13, 12:10 AM with 156 comments

  • by Breakthrough on 1/25/13, 12:49 AM

    This is so amazing, but I'm really hoping that they release a way for mod developers to recompile their mods to work... Do they have the multiplayer aspects working?

    Obligatory plug for my favourite HL1 mod: http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/

    Edit: Yep, sure enough HL1 shows up in the Steam Linux CDR (http://cdr.xpaw.ru/linux/), and interestingly enough, so does Counter-Strike - albeit with the message "Not Marked for Linux"...

  • by failrate on 1/25/13, 2:25 AM

    It would tickle me if they released HL3 on Linux first. That might drive quite a bit of Linux adoption.

  • by Camillo on 1/25/13, 1:29 AM

    Nowadays, you might want to play Black Mesa instead: http://www.blackmesasource.com

    It's officially just for Windows, but it runs fine in Wine.

  • by daenz on 1/25/13, 2:28 AM

    I read this as a hint/signal that Half-Life 3 may be available on Linux as well.

  • by bitwize on 1/25/13, 1:01 AM

    That's great but... where were you 15 years ago, Valve? I was trying to keep Windows 98 taped together to run HL...

  • by shmerl on 1/25/13, 2:06 AM

    Where can one buy the DRM free version?

  • by rangibaby on 1/25/13, 1:47 AM

    Yes! Counter-Strike next please.

  • by wylie on 1/25/13, 12:53 AM

    Does this mean anything for Half-Life on a Mac?

  • by ysangkok on 1/25/13, 12:38 PM

    A couple of problems/solutions for problems I encountered using Ubuntu 12.04:

    * It will crash right after start using NVIDIA drivers 310.19. Upgrade to the latest, I used 310.32.

    * It does not work with plain ALSA, I only get sound after starting PulseAudio.

  • by ekianjo on 1/25/13, 4:27 AM

    Now I hope they release HL2 and Portal next :)

  • by kunai on 1/25/13, 2:41 PM

    Wow, this is great, especially since I'm a Linux user. Now if only Adobe would port CS6 over to Linux...

  • by taitems on 1/25/13, 1:03 AM

    So, stating the obvious, this was only done because the Steam Box will run on a Linux variant, right?

  • by jiggy2011 on 1/25/13, 12:55 PM

    Shame that HL1 looks like absolute ass @ 16:9

  • by nib952051 on 1/25/13, 9:50 AM

    They made my weekend

  • by thefreeman on 1/25/13, 5:14 AM

    Please dota 2 next!