RE: Steam on Debian

["Mark Allums" <mark@allums.com>]

> From: David Guntner [mailto:davidg@akaMail.net]
> Mark Allums grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  I am a bit skeptical that many distributions
will be
> > officially supported.  Certainly Ubuntu and direct derivatives, possibly
> > Debian and direct derivatives, probably Fedora and some other RPM-
> based
> > distros such as OpenSuSE.  Slackware, Arch, and Gentoo are likely out of
> > luck.
> 
> Amusingly enough, I just stumbled upon the following page:
> 
> https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux
> 
> In its section on "Native Steam on Linux Beta Client," it lists
> openSUSE/SUSE, Gentoo, Fedora and Arch Linux.  Now, I'm guessing it's an
> older page, given that it doesn't list Ubuntu except under the "how to
> install it under Wine" section.
> 
> Go figure... :-)
> 
>                --Dave
> 
> P.S.  I just double checked, and at the bottom of the page, it indicates
> that it was last updated on 19 Jan 2013, so it's not *that* old.  I
> think someone forgot to take into account the Ubuntu/Linux beta test....
:-)


Go figure...  :)

What I wrote was speculation, no more.  This might be better information.
However, I was going with the odds.  *Lots* of Fedora and Ubuntu users out
there.