Steam for Linux Can Now Be Legally Packaged in Other Distros

This strikes me as possibly the clearest indication yet, that Valve is really serious about Steam for Linux

They want to put out their own console-like boxes. Linux is their ticket to that.

Oh wow, I must have skimmed right past that tidbit. I like streamlined code. :)

Gabe Newell recently spoke at DICE and said that Linux gives people the freedom to innovate. No kidding.

Bugs me a bit that the open-sourced version of Desura, Desurium is not standard in the repos of more distros.

I see a lot of griping about both these systems about the fact that they install all their software in self-contained areas of the user's home directory, instead of using system libs and the native package manager. I find this griping short sighted. Games are often bloaty messes of proprietary stuff, does one really want that to be deeply integrated with one's system? It's entertainment software. I prefer to have it all in a neat little corner that does not interfere with the rest of the OS.