It’s Almost Here
Steam announced late yesterday via its blog that Steam and L4D2 will enter internal beta stage next week. This means that the software will be tested internally for a matter of 2 to 4 weeks. After that initial phase of testing Valve reports that there will be an official external beta program.
The external beta program is extremely exclusive however, offering this testing to only 1000 candidates. The idea behind this program is to test Steam and L4d2 on the widest range of hardware possible. So feel free to sign up with your 486DX4 100 and 8MB of RAM, though I’m sure that may fall out of the range they are looking for. The private external beta will include the following: