{"id":5462,"date":"2013-02-19T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T00:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=5462"},"modified":"2013-02-15T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T09:20:16","slug":"get-tux-the-penguin-in-team-fortress-2-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/get-tux-the-penguin-in-team-fortress-2-on-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Tux the Penguin in Team Fortress 2 on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Steam now officially available on Linux, Valve is celebrating with a free promotional for Team Fortress 2 in the form of a Tux penguin. If you use Windows then you might feel left out but if you really want a Tux penguin then you could always do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;\">install Oracle VM VirtualBox,<\/span><\/li>\n<li>install Ubuntu in a virtual machine,<\/li>\n<li>install Steam in the VM,<\/li>\n<li>install TF2 in the VM,<\/li>\n<li>fire up TF2 (even if the screen ends up blank &#8211; so long as you can hear audio that&#8217;s all you need),<\/li>\n<li>delete the VM to reclaim the space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want step-by-step instructions on how to do this you can <a title=\"How-To Install Ubuntu, Steam &amp; TF2 under VirtualBox on Windows to get Linux Tux Promo | HubPages\" href=\"http:\/\/alexmk.hubpages.com\/hub\/How-To-Install-Ubuntu-Steam-TF2-under-VirtualBox-on-Windows-to-get-Linux-Tux-Promo\" target=\"_blank\">have a look at this guide here<\/a> but it might not be for the faint of heart. Otherwise, if you are somewhat comfortable with running a VM and Linux then you can probably wing it and get the desired results.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, it might take a while to complete end-to-end (maybe a few hours) so you might just let the various installs do their thing in the background while you do other tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Steam now officially available on Linux, Valve is celebrating with a free promotional for Team Fortress 2 in the form of a Tux penguin. If you use Windows then you might feel left out but if you really want a Tux penguin then you could always do the following: install Oracle VM VirtualBox, install &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/get-tux-the-penguin-in-team-fortress-2-on-windows\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,267,151,446,18],"tags":[2302,359,431,2028,433,2029,163],"class_list":["post-5462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-search","category-linux","category-operating-systems","category-steam-content-search-technology","category-technology","tag-linux","tag-steam","tag-team-fortress-2","tag-ubuntu","tag-valve","tag-virtual-box","tag-virtual-machines","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Steam-Logo.png?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}