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Oh please!

Phoronix is reporting Proof In Steam’s Mac Client of Linux Support with this tasty tidbit they found:

#!/bin/bash

# figure out the absolute path to the script being run a bit
# non-obvious, the ${0%/*} pulls the path out of $0, cd's into the
# specified directory, then uses $PWD to figure out where that
# directory lives - and all this in a subshell, so we don't affect
# $PWD

STEAMROOT=$(cd "${0%/*}" && echo $PWD)

#determine platform
UNAME=`uname`
if [ "$UNAME" == "Darwin" ]; then
   PLATFORM=osx32
   # prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
   export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
elif [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ]; then
   PLATFORM=linux32
   # prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
fi

if [ -z $STEAMEXE ]; then
  STEAMEXE=steam
fi

ulimit -n 2048

# and launch steam
cd "$STEAMROOT"

STATUS=42
while [ $STATUS -eq 42 ]; do
        ${DEBUGGER} "${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}/${STEAMEXE} $@
        STATUS=$?
        # are we running osx?
        if [ $STATUS -eq 42 -a ${PLATFORM} == "osx32" -a -f Info.plist ]; then
                # are we running from in a bundle?
                exec open "${STEAMROOT}"/../..
        fi
done
exit $STATUS

There are lots of  good native games for Linux, but the idea that Valve might bring over some of the big guns like Half-Life, Portal, and Team Fortress is near intoxicating for this Linux gamer!