Archive for the tag "steam"
Half-Life Dedicated Server
I have written down how I configured my Half-Life Dedicated Server (HLDS) in a new Slackware Documentation article. You can find the article here: http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:software:halflife_dedicated_server The reason why I felt compelled to write this, was that the information you can find using Google, and the information on Valve’s own developer Wiki, is not 100% accurate [...]
Posted: 9 March, 2013 in Games, Me, Slackware, Software.
Tags: hlds, steam, teamspeak, valve
Comments: 14
Survey results for Linux gaming on Steam
Valve published their monthly statistics on the Steam gaming platform.The February 2013 Hardware & Software survey results show that the adoption of Linux has doubled in the past month (click on the “OS Version” stats to see all Operating Systems, not just Windows). While Ubuntu is obviously taking the largest part of the Linux pie, [...]
Posted: 2 March, 2013 in Games, Slackware, Software.
Tags: steam
Comments: 23
Steam client for Linux is out of Beta
The Steam client for Linux is finally out of Beta! This is being celebrated by offering large discounts on all 54 Linux games which are currently available on the Steam platform. So if you wanted to play the Original Half-Life natively on Slackware, you only have to shell out a measly few bucks. If there [...]
Posted: 14 February, 2013 in Games, Slackware, Software.
Tags: half-life, hlds, steam
Comments: 23
Steam games in Slackware
Valve is updating its Steam client for Linux regualarly, fixing the issues which are reported by lots of interested Linux gamers. I was a bit behind with updating my Slackware remix of the client binaries but I have overcome the flue and pushed an update, bringing the steamclient package for Slackware to the latest version, 1.0.0.22. [...]
Posted: 3 February, 2013 in Games, Slackware, Software.
Tags: alsa, half-life, pulseaudio, steam
Comments: 9
Packages for LibreOffice 3.6.5, calibre and steamclient, and lots of movement on the horizon
Yes, I finally got rid of the flu – but it took a week. I lost some weight (and I am not overweight so I am looking starved now), I still have a bad cough and my lower back muscles are strained and painful because of the continuous coughing. Otherwise I am fine. I had [...]
Posted: 2 February, 2013 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: calibre, ebook, epub, libreoffice, steam, vlc
Comments: 15