Valve Continues Recruiting Top Linux Talent 167
An anonymous reader writes "Valve Software, in their Linux Steam / Source Engine effort, plus the rumored Steam Box, is continuing to hire top Linux developers. So far they have poached the lead developers of the DarkPlaces open-source engine used by Nexuiz/Xonotic, the founder of Battle for Wesnoth, and just yesterday they hired Sam latinga, creator of Simple DirectMedia Layer. According to Michael Larabel, they are still trying to hire more Linux kernel developers, driver experts, and other 'extremely talented Linux developers.'"
Re:Weird requirement (Score:5, Informative)
They are buying knowledge specifically experience not just skills. They are employing people who know far more about linux development than their current staff do.
Employing windows or whatever devs will delay them from having productive staff and will increase the chance they take the wrong approach to the problem. Only the genius windows devs will avoid thinking the windows way is the standard or best way to do something in linux.
Re:This might keep NVIDIA in the console business (Score:3, Informative)
Given that it seems all Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony will be going with AMD for their next-gen graphics hardware, nVidia will likely be the one to supply graphics hardware for the Steam box (as their Linux drivers are by far the most mature).
As long as you aren't using an Optimus card. Then nVidia's driver support can best be described as "#$%* you!"
Re:Interesting times ahead potentially.. (Score:3, Informative)
But the system can be cheated, like this AC just modded himself "insightful".
Re:Vale Linux (Score:5, Informative)
I bet Valve will help with the 3rd party developer support, perhaps a cross-platform answer to DirectX.
Do you mean OpenGL? i think some one has already written it
Re:Vale Linux (Score:3, Informative)
DirectX is more than just a graphics API.
Re:Vale Linux (Score:2, Informative)
DirectX is more than just a graphics API.
You mean SDL then? They already got the guy.