Desura Linux Game Client Goes Open Source 94
An anonymous reader writes "The Desura game distribution client for Windows and Linux and developed by ModDB is now open source software. The open source version of the client is called Desurium and is hosted on GitHub."
Re:I play PC games (Score:3, Informative)
you can backup local game files in steam either manually or using their own backup function.
steam is incredibly well built in this regard, you can even throw _some_ game files into the corresponding directory, and steam will recognize them and skip them for download...
for example, i installed steam on wine on a linux partition, and then copied game files manually from a windows installation in the same box, and voila, steam did not complain about anything, and all games worked fine.
Open source doesn't imply abandonment. (Score:4, Informative)