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SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13

Posted by Soulskill on from the year-of-linux-on-the-steambox dept.

sfcrazy writes "Valve Software, creator of Half-Life and Left 4 Dead, has announced that SteamOS will be available for public download on December 13. That's the day when the company will start shipping Steam Machines and Steam Controllers to the 300 selected beta participants. The company said, 'SteamOS will be made available when the prototype hardware ships. It will be downloadable by individual users and commercial OEMs. (But unless you're an intrepid Linux hacker already, we're going to recommend that you wait until later in 2014 to try it out.)"

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  1. How wfell wiill trhiss rutn ipn ao VsM?t by jeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kind of want to try this in Virtualbox.

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  2. Electric demons in love by crioca · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's been a lot of hype and misconceptions about SteamOS within the gaming community especially. SteamOS isn't a desktop OS, it's a console OS and needs to be understood as such. It won't be a whole lot of use unless you're planning to set up a PC for use as a console.

    1. Re:Electric demons in love by geekoid · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It's more like XBMC with gaming..and apps, cause it will stream all your media and play steam games.

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  3. Gaming controllers by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Informative

    I browse Linux commit logs every now and then and these days there are surprisingly many various game controller patches flowing in. Good.

  4. Re:GNOME? by GreatDrok · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Are they providing a sensible version of GNOME? I very want to shuck Ubuntu, and this would let me have my Steam games *and* a usable desktop system."

    This isn't the Linux you're looking for. This is stripped down and intended to run Steam in Big Picture mode all the time. No desktop at all. The standard Steam client on a Linux system is what you're looking for.

    Personally, I shy away from the bleeding edge Linux systems and stick with CentOS.

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  5. Let's build our own SteamMachines by Dekonega · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The beta is U.S. Only, and that's a shame. I was hoping for the world wide beta test. But I guess they had their reasons. But at least the SteamOS will be downloadable so I can build my own device. I probably won't be investing too much time or money into it. If I buy Antec ISK300-150 and make a ~400€ AMD APU powered indie game device it would probably serve its duty well (and afterwards be a nice tiny server box). You people can probably recommend something better if this idea seems bad. Or share suggestions for others to read.

  6. Re: Desktop Linux! by ArhcAngel · · Score: 5, Funny

    And as soon as Gentoo finishes compiling they'll post their responses.

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