Valve joined the Linux Foundation

by Valve, the developer of gaming platform Steam, developer and publisher of video games, присоединилась among the participants Linux Foundation , which promotes free system GNU / Linux and open source software.

Such a move should not surprise anyone, because lately Valve actively using Linux. For example, the Linux operating system running Steam OS, which will be used in game consoles, Steam Machine (expected to yield in January 2014 ) . Co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell said that future of gaming - for Linux . Official Linux-client platform Steam was released in February of this year.

Gabe Newell last year called Windows 8 «disaster for the personal computer industry» . And while most of Steam users work it under Windows, but the company Valve hopes that over time more and more of them will move to a free operating system.

We must not forget that Valve is actively assisting in the development of the debugger LLDB , and is co-author of the new debugger on Linux, which is now created. "When we offered to developers: choose one tool that Valve can do to improve Linux as a development platform, they always called debugger" - said Newell.

"Joining the Linux Foundation - one of the many ways in which the company promotes Linux games under Linux», - said Mike Serteyn (Mike Sartain), one of the main groups of employees in the company's Linux Valve. - Thanks to these efforts, we hope to contribute to the development tools that improve Linux, make hardware manufacturers to deliver support Linux as its priority, and eventually bring to market an elegant and open gaming platform for users of Linux ».

Gabe Newell and Linus Torvalds about the games under Linux


Source: habrahabr.ru/post/204836/