Not many big game companies are willing to invest in the realm of the Linux operating system. Therefore, the steps of the famous game company Valve with Half Life game (with the mod Counter-Strike is definitely known to gamers) to set foot into the Linux distro Ubuntu is staggering.
No half-hearted, Steam Valve to port (activation game system and online store) and the game engine (driving game program) Source to Ubuntu.
Through these steps, Valve also includes most famous zombie shooter game Left 4 Dead 2 into Ubuntu. Through the Steam version of Ubuntu, OS users can join and play games that were previously only enjoyed by the user's PC and Mac only.
Currently developer Valve are still trying to improve the performance of frame-rate of the game on Linux platform.
In addition, this game will also be given SteamPlay features. Thus, users who already have the game on Windows or Mac platform can directly download it on Ubuntu with no cost or for free!
Today, the Valve confined to port for Ubuntu only and can run well on Linux Mint. However, Valve claimed the Linux community can freely modify it to work on other Linux distributions, like Red Hat / Fedora and SuSE.
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