Valve quietly ports Half-Life to OSX and Linux

[The Chief]

After a fifteen-year wait, OS X and Linux users can finally enjoy the original Half-Life on their Macs and Linux PCs. Valve has not yet officially announced the port, but Cult of Mac has confirmed that the game does download to, install and run on OS X, and is available for $9.99 (approx Rs 500) on Steam. Geek claims that the game also works on Linux PCs.

http://tech2.in.com/news/gaming/valve-quietly-ports-halflife-to-osx-and-linux/725422

[Just17]

I dunno about that particular game, but Valve have been announcing games for Linux in the last few weeks .....  so lots of games have been and are being ported ......  presumably sometime this year they will release their own game machine also likely to be based on Linux.

[µT6]

half life is too old to be that expensive or relevant

there is a mod for half life 2/ source that did a entire remake of the original half life, it is practically identical, same storyline but new graphics and it is free to download and only ask for half life to be installed

that's the kind of content that should be ported as fast as possible

eventually we will see linux only releases 

[deathromantik]

Steambox is Linux based OS.
With the Hardware support of the kernel, security and it being FOSS, it makes sense really.

[Dimplewidget]

Will can we expect the Debian Steam installer to be converted and introduced to the PCLOS repo?

[µT6]

we will have a version but not yet because there is some dependencies that needs to be updated first so stem won't work yet

[Dimplewidget]

I'm glad.  Gaming is the one thing keeping me dual booting.  I hope this is a catalyst for other companies to support Linux or at least give opengl serious support.  I used to play WoW on linux until the support for opengl disappeared.  Now I play DCUO but it is sub par on wine so I'm stuck playing it on windows.  Thank you MS and Apple for biting the hands that feed you.