A Portal Beta for Linux on Steam is now available.

This release means for fans of Valve games, that, as from now,Valve’s continued dedication to Linux as a gaming platform and the ongoing port of the Source game engine to Linux means any non-Valve games that use it will also benefit.

‘’Also, this beta release indicates that it’s very likely that the rest of the Half Life and Portal series may be coming to Linux in the not so distant future’’. Affirms Omgubuntu. 

 To Download the Portal Beta for Linux, you are invited, if you don’t have Steam

already installed you can do so via  the Ubuntu Software Centre  . For you command line fans:

wget http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.deb

sudo dpkg -i steam_latest.deb && sudo apt-get install -fy

However if you already have Steam installed, or have just finished installing and setting it up, you can Download Portal Beta via Steam Client

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