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.

seems tempting

there will be a time when they will deliver streaming services too, which imo, something i'm not looking forward to

that was unexpected...

also............. I dont think there will be HL3

I see this as an awesome advancement for Steam. Not only are they indirectly penetrating the console market, it also open the doors for them for using the OS as a productivity machine.

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

rumors going out that they are planning to make steambox.
their own linux based "console"?
the third announcent is still unclear.

Wonder how the steambox will turn out.

Half-Life 3 spotted!

Oh great,another ubuntu remix? I not quite sure of this.

it would be awesome if this steam OS can allow us to play winXP only games and win7 only games together without having to dual boot 2 windows OS.

ceh. streaming saja.
cannot directly play windows games.

but better than nothing.
i wonder if the streaming will be lagless.

local network shud be lagless..
but still din get rid of m$ machine from my household..
still waiting for the day to come when I can be free from m$

ayam skeptical

Very skeptical about this but if they can get rid of M$ from my system, i'll be really happy.

Surface Pro 2 just make me feel like getting an iPad now.

hard to get rid of M$ unless ...

unless the steam os has some kind of built in virtual machine, that can play win xp, win 7 games.

now that would be awesome.

I know you can run VMware or any sort of virtual machine on any Linux distro.

As long as Steam OS didnt get rid of the "desktop" mode, i think its doable.

Big plus if i can just throw my current VM straight to Steam OS with VM Ware with zero configuration.

I think its called wine. vm probably need tweaking and also performance might be an issue.. not for day to day usage unless u reallu desperate to get rid of m$

I actually use VM for my daily work now, because M$ screwed up the NET Framework and made those expensive software becoming paper weights in Win 7. The only way to run it is via VM through a Windows XP.

Considering they said backwards compatibility is backwards thinking, I am very eager to move away from their system as soon as possible. Hopefully they arent aiming to be a shitty Apple as that would sucked.

If Gabe wanna boost linux gaming, simple, start giving a strong reason for developer to port the games to linux

first step is to take less cut for any games that have linux port.

1. Games have linux port take 20-25% cut
2. Games dont have linux support take 30% cut.
developer butthurt will be force their hands to release a liux port despite 1% OS share, just to save that 5% cut.

otherwise, nice try. Microsoft controls windows + DirectX, with DirectX being the dominant API. Good luck with that.

I dont know how much Valve has done in the background but they are working on it. AMD and nVidia are on board with Valve to push Steam OS while free Steam OS license will make OEM to adopt it faster. OEMs are fairly butthurt too due to Windows 8 causing their sales to drop to the point some like Acer started selling Chromebooks too.

I know that Valve is developing a much better debugger for Linux as it was one of the biggest problem of developing software for Linux. Based on developer feedback.

I am skeptical but I hope this worked out as I do want to move to Steam OS if its viable. Even if its just 20% increase in performance.