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Sir Kindrik



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Just found out about this today, fairly interesting to say the least - will be curious to see where this goes - maybe the next phone/tablet OS?:

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SteamOS is based on Linux, is designed for the TV and the living room, and will be free.


http://www.gamespot.com/news/valve-reveals-steamos-6414851

http://www.gamespot.com/news/valve-reveals-steam-machines-6414959?tag=Topslot;Slot1
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I think there will be good things and bad things about this... Good things will be that games can be highly tuned for the "OS" and run better. I really like the fact that you may be able to stream games from your desktop to your TV and increase what you can play in your TV entertainment area.

Another plus, which I think might be a really good side benefit... more Steam games that will play on Linux! Happy

The disadvantage? I fear that by taking Linux and hacking it into its own "OS" will further fracture Linux that already seems to have a lot of distributions. I would rather see SteamOS packaged up to provide the same performance boosts and allow Linux users to install it on whatever distribution they want to run.

I suspect, from what I read, there will be more advantages than disadvantages though Happy


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