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Valve announces SteamOS

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PartTimeWarrior

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http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself. SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.
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MRORANGE

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http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

Steam is coming to a new operating system

As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.


Living room & Steam
Finally, you don’t have to give up your favorite games, your online friends, and all the Steam features you love just to play on the big screen. SteamOS, running on any living room machine, will provide access to the best games and user-generated content available.
Fast forward

In SteamOS, we have achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing, and we’re now targeting audio performance and reductions in input latency at the operating system level. Game developers are already taking advantage of these gains as they target SteamOS for their new releases.
Cooperating system
Steam is not a one-way content broadcast channel, it’s a collaborative many-to-many entertainment platform, in which each participant is a multiplier of the experience for everyone else. With SteamOS, “openness” means that the hardware industry can iterate in the living room at a much faster pace than they’ve been able to. Content creators can connect directly to their customers. Users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want. Gamers are empowered to join in the creation of the games they love. SteamOS will continue to evolve, but will remain an environment designed to foster these kinds of innovation.
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RoboPlato

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A free OS by Valve? Damn, wasn't expecting that. Awesome.

Seems like they may just focus on the OS/service side of things instead of the hardware.
 
SolidSnakeUS

SolidSnakeUS

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Honestly, if they wanted to push Linux gaming, this was THE perfect way to do it.

PS4 running on Linux and a SteamOS running on Linux = a giant surge in Linux based gaming.
 
The Elite

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Well, fuck. Not sure if I'll use it since I use other Windows applications right now. But if it offers enough features and apps that can match those in Windows, I may switch.
 
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Disguises

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Consider me interested :D. It always seemed Valve were heading this direction anyway, but it's brilliant to have confirmation
 
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Mesoian

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Hmm...interesting...sounds great for people who don't want their pc's in their living room.

I guess my question is how will it handle other processes that aren't game related, like media sharing.
 
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Chili

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You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!
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Amazing! I've wanted this for so long.
 
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Tacitus_

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You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!
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So no magic wrappers that make your entire library available there.

shinobi602 said:
I barely use Steam, so it's basically an OS within an OS on a PC? right?

No Steambox?
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Some sort of Linux distro.
 
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