It's (almost) Fully Official!!! -CryEngine on Linux

Steam for linux just reported that Crytek are hiring Linux Devs to maintain their Linux support for CryEngine. 
Yep, this means more quality games on Linux and Star Citizen for Linux almost 100% confirmed. 

Hmm interesting to note they prefer C++ as the OO language ..

Is this the announcement that Chris Roberts was wanting to make but couldn't make just yet that would happily surprise Linux and Mac gamers?

Phoronix's article here. Apparently the source Phoronix had for the early CryEngine Linux rumour was recommended to Valve by Phoronix!
Previous CryEngine Linux rumour post here.

I read Phoronix's article on the CryEngine port before, but although I do have more than 50% confidence in Phoronix, it was still the only source I could find on the net before I got excited at the Wii U getting support.
To me, I think Phoronix is like the Parabolic Arc of the computing world (and Parabolic Arc the Phoronix of the space world). Great early fan-news blogs!

Linux is totally picking up pace =3

Random notes to self

Kubuntu 12.04 amd64 performance
- I've noticed a marked decrease in performance (read massive lag, must kill offending program with too much memory usage) when I reach 98% of RAM utilised and start using swap disk space. That said, I'm running relatively lag/stutter free.

Advances in computer hardware:
Roughly the Same RRPs: s02au and js02au (note I have a R580 most like JS02AU and it has an i5-520M processor)
http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/pc-peripherals/notebook-pc/productcompare?prda=NP550P5C-S02AU&prdb=NP550P5C-S03AU&prdc=NP-R580-JS02AU
http://ark.intel.com/compare/64899,47341
Also according to:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
Pretty much double in 3D mark and Cinebench test scores. I'd imagine something like 2x+ FPS when gaming if GPU bound.

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