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jdmulloy
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 Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject: Why is halflife-steam described as a client when it isn't? |
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I'm trying to convince a friend to not switch from Ubuntu which he just installed to Vista but he wants to play games and thinks Linux is too much work. I told him that there was steam for linux because there was this package which says it's a CLIENT it is not, there is no client so why is this mislabeled?
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bunder
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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steam, itself, is a client. you use it to download the dedicated server or client of your choice.
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roderick
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 1:31 am Post subject: |
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You might tell your friend that wine 0.9.37 is 100% compatible with Steam for windows. I have Half-life Anthology and Half-life 2 working with Wine.
The Steam listed under portage is for downloading server content as most games servers use Linux (for reliability reasons), at leat that's what I understand it to be used for. Currently there are no Steam Linux game clients released, just the servers.
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Maetis
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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I too find this confusing and think it should be changed.
| Quote: | | games-server/halflife-steam - client for Valve Software's Steam content delivery program |
It really gives the impression that this is Steam for Linux or something like that, when it actually is just hldsupdate which downloads the server files.
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roderick
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 2:35 am Post subject: |
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games-server/halflife-steam - client for Valve Software's Steam content delivery prog
It's under Games-Server category - that should explain everything. To me this says it's an app (i.e. client) for Steam enabled servers
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