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Valve Starts Publishing Packages For Its Own Linux Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the ready-for-the-console-at-least dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In preparation for the "Steam Box" game console that will make necessary their own Linux-based software platform, Valve developers have started publishing Debian packages for their platform which looks like their first-generation operating system will be derived from Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS. So far the packages being published include a new "Plymouth" boot splash screen as the operating system loads, a Steam desktop wallpaper, auto-updating system scripts, and experimental NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers."

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  1. Year of the Linux Desktop? by Nerdfest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It looks like this might finally be the year. With Windows 8 throwing a lot of users away with a bad interface and a marketplace lock-in, The timing is pretty good. A lot of people always claimed that games were the only reason they were still on Windows.

    1. Re:Year of the Linux Desktop? by nine-times · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Maybe not the year of the Linux desktop, but instead the year of the Linux set-top-box.