SteamOS
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Melvin
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If you want an expanded version of SteamOS that also has a regular desktop environment, all you need to do is be patient. It'll happen; and when it does you'll have have all the "popular" Linux programs (like VLC for example) available in their package manager. Yeah, that's not really very specific...http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/_sl said:
SteamOS is Linux with some things removed, some things added, and some things customized. The new and customized parts aren't going to stop good Linux developers from re-adding all the parts that have been removed. It may slow them down, but it won't stop them from creating custom versions of SteamOS that are as full-featured of an OS as your typical Linux distro.
Zaphid
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I'm not going to forget GFWL anytime soon, weird how they have such short memory...
Tripamang
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You can sign up to test the SteamOS streaming play by joining this group:Steam Community :: Group :: Steam In-Home Streaming
They're picking people from the group to be beta testers.
They're picking people from the group to be beta testers.
Tuco
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It's open source. Any steamOS I use I'll probably have root access to. And if I wanted to recompile the kernel I probably could.
supposedly they aren't, thankfully, using ubuntu, not that i imagined they would.
vrwise higher fps and lower display latency matters... which seems to be some of their intents with their modded os.
i wanna see some type of non mpeg interpolation work going on and also some standardized hrtf options for their openvr in steam
vrwise higher fps and lower display latency matters... which seems to be some of their intents with their modded os.
i wanna see some type of non mpeg interpolation work going on and also some standardized hrtf options for their openvr in steam
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Do you guys lose a lot of potential recruits when they can't find your website due to misspelling?
Melvin
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Although Android is technically a Linux OS, it's a very large deviation from the *nix standards that Linux distros typically stick pretty close to. The same tactics that Google uses to maintain its status as the one and only 500lb gorilla on the Android platform are simply not going to work on a true *nix platform. I don't actually think that the first official release of SteamOS is going to be a *nix system at all, but they are forced to stick pretty close to those standards nonetheless, if only to maintain compatibility with all of their currently Linux compatible games. The fact that they're using off the shelf PC hardware (for the foreseeable future) is another strong indicator that Valve is probably not going to rock the boat by making SteamOS incompatible with the *nix design whose coattails they're planning on riding to great success.
You have to remember also that they are building on a platform where they are required to be open source because of GPL.
Google doesn't have to do any of that with the OS that they made they made up their own licensing.
Google doesn't have to do any of that with the OS that they made they made up their own licensing.
Cantatus
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Either he's just pretending GFWL didn't happen or this quote gives some real insight into that disaster. Microsoft failed taking on Valve on their home turf (a turf Microsoft lost in the first place due to negligence), so I really have to wonder what those at the top are thinking about Valve now encroaching on their territory, particularly since part of that is pushing a different OS.
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Hekotat
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That's pretty badass, really wanting to see what they can do with this thing though.
more info tba in jan
dont buy an ati gpu for steamos at this point hoping that it will be on par with nvidia's drivers.
dont buy an ati gpu for steamos at this point hoping that it will be on par with nvidia's drivers.
presumably, steamos is for native linux games only. ..eventually though i imagine you coudl use wine on a modded distro. also i think you can stream games from another comp. i'm interested in their prototype vrhmd they are going to show that's (expected) to be techviable in a few years time (some time after oculus).
maybe by then steamos will have estabilished itself and ati will come up with steam-certified drivers. as much as i am looking forward to oculus.. i might skip the first generation
maybe by then steamos will have estabilished itself and ati will come up with steam-certified drivers. as much as i am looking forward to oculus.. i might skip the first generation
I imagine a decent chunk of devs will hop aboard the SteamOS train and some will even go back and make a compatible executable. I'd expect a lot of support going forward for new games.