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I honestly wasn't sure if this day would ever come.

After all, if OS X, with all of Apple's resources, couldn't wrap up much developer support, what hope did Linux have?

Absolutely fantastic news!

It's not really news yet. Valve won't officially get behind it until such a point as they can be sure that it will function solidly on the majority of major Linux platforms. Even beyond that, they'll want to make sure there's a market for it, and that's going to be the harder part. I expect any linux stuff done so far is exploratory rather than a guarantee.

I mean, the support that's there could be just one or two guys noodling around. At one point in the life of Neverwinter Nights, there was a BeOS port done by a BeOS fanatic in the Bioware office.

Sadly, until there's an official announcement, I wouldn't get too excited.

Check the image from the Mac Steam announcement: http://media.steampowered.com/apps/mac/MacSteam_AlfredJasonG... The guy has TWO penguins on his desk! That must count as an official announcement as well, right? ;)

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