SteamOS Announced
The countdown on the Steam Living Room page has concluded, and this page has details on SteamOS, “available soon as a free operating system designed for the TV and the living room,” the promised announcement about Valve’s future plans for Linux and Steam.
This is the first of three planned announcements on the topic, so expect more to come in about 48 hours when the next countdown concludes. Here’s word:
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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the SteamOS doesnt interest me
the SteamOS doesnt interest me much since im already running linux but id love to know more about all these games coming in 2014
im hoping the steambox will be a cheap and low power enough to turn into a nice mediacenter frontend and the game streaming although might be ok id hate for that to be an excuse for companies to not port their stuff(just like wine is now)
This is really exciting!
But there are some real practical issues/limitations which I still am yet to understand!
Now I’m not going to rant about the limitations of TVs… PC users are already feeling the dumbed down from 1920/1200 to the 1920/1080 issue already. its funny when “fullHD” isn’t really full… And anything that’s not to “their liking” is “ultra” but we don’t talk about that!
What my concern is with this is 2 fold.
I don’t want to move my monster powerful gaming box to the living room! Nor do I want a Media PC. Why? Well 1st I have a study and that’s where my PC belongs outside the reach of the kids/doesn’t effect the wife watching tv…. It’s also NOT portable by any stretch of the imagination. Secondly. I don’t want a media PC because I can’t afford one, and there a cheaper alternatives to stream media to the TV. I don’t want another control/device in the living room for the children to jam a matchbox car into and the mucking about with the “Xbox media center” no thanks (but that will be 1 issue that steamOS might fix)
So I have a few questions and thoughts!
Can I use a cable to mirror my PC to the tv?
Do I have to have a Media PC? (I think this is the case – otherwise how would an OS work)
So while I’m excited about the functionality I’m dubious that its for me…
Also if I wanted a console. I’d buy a console… I just want to play my PC on a big screen!
I’m interested tho ro, keep us informed!
i do like
the idea behind it. but there is also the piston console thingy
but i am not a big console person at all. PC all the way baby.
and the media center part of it well i could take it or leave it.
IMHO a non Microsoft or Sony console games offering is a win either way you look at it.
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Robag
2nd announcement steam machines
http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/
no real hardware info but seems like 300 lucky people will get one for free to betatest
EDIT: saw this on reddit http://www.techspot.com/news/54134-amd-unveils-revolutionary-mantle-api-...
mantle sounds interesting it cuts away any graphics api and uses the cards internal functions instead just like consoles have been doing for ages. the downside its vendor specific.
Valve Announces Steam Controller
Amazing little c0ntr0ller but we all kn0w it cant beat a m0use and keyb0ard…..
IGN Controller Review
n0mad
Exactly right nomad!
If I’m playing a FPS against PC players, I’m putting down that control for sure!
Steam Machines Specs
the steam machines prototype specs are out
“The 300 prototype units will ship with the following components:
GPU: some units with NVidia Titan, some GTX780, some GTX760, and some GTX660
CPU: some boxes with Intel i7-4770, some i5-4570, and some i3
RAM: 16GB DDR3-1600 (CPU), 3GB GDDR5 (GPU)
Storage: 1TB/8GB Hybrid SSHD
Power Supply: Internal 450w 80Plus Gold
Dimensions: approx. 12 × 12.4 × 2.9 in high”
looks good. i hope im lucky enough to be picked and get the titan model
i think theres still time to enter the pool. just finish off the steam hardware badge to level 2
the lucky 300 has been announced and machines sent out friday
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse#announcements/detail/1930...
unfortunately they restricted the beta to us only so none of us had any chance but atleast we can stop checking our email/steam/mailboxes for the steambox
hopefully they can finally release portal 2 and cs:go to make up for it :)
Linux users 0nly
Yep sum 0f us may play with the Steam OS but Linux 0nly
Link t0 Steam OS
n0mad
Debian 7.1 If I’m n0t mistaken
SteamOS FAQ
STEAMos FAQ
n0mad
downloaded it
not sure if ill install it somewhere. might have enough parts around for a basic pc to test it out or i might load it in the VM.
honestly since i already run linux steamOS doesnt appeal to me(slackware forever :P). its all about the controller/Games this will bring(still waiting for CS:GO and Portal 2 valve :/ )
@slacker
it is Ubuntu based distro. maybe i can find an older laptop to give it a run on……
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Robag
Hmm benchmark is out
I do love a good benchmark
A comprehensive performance comparison is underway at Phoronix that pits SteamOS against other desktop Linux distributions, but for those anxious to see some performance numbers, here are benchmarks done so far this weekend from seven NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards on the public SteamOS 1.0 Beta operating system. In this article are early benchmarks from seven NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards running Valve’s Debian Linux based SteamOS on an Intel Haswell system.
GeForce Benchmarks On The SteamOS Beta
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=steamos_linux_benchma...
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