For those of you using SteamOS, you might want to know about a new beta Valve just put out. It features the usual security updates as well as a few other niceties.
The Linux Kernel has been updated to 4.11.4, Mesa got updated to 17.1.2 and there's also a DualShock 4 gamepad crash fix. You can find the full changelog here. Not a huge release, but it's important that Valve continue to push out updates to keep it alive (and useful!).
It's really great to see Valve starting to push out quicker updates once again, after it being delayed a while before the recent big update.
Valve are quite obviously playing the long game here, as they continue to update the core components while their own employed Mesa developers (and the various others) plug away at making the open source drivers better.
It will be interesting to see what Valve do with it in future, but it's days are not over — yet. SteamOS is dead, long live SteamOS.
Note: Since people clearly didn't get the joke about "SteamOS is dead, long live SteamOS". It's a play on the saying, due to the amount of times people and the media have claimed SteamOS/Steam Machines are dead. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
The Linux Kernel has been updated to 4.11.4, Mesa got updated to 17.1.2 and there's also a DualShock 4 gamepad crash fix. You can find the full changelog here. Not a huge release, but it's important that Valve continue to push out updates to keep it alive (and useful!).
It's really great to see Valve starting to push out quicker updates once again, after it being delayed a while before the recent big update.
Valve are quite obviously playing the long game here, as they continue to update the core components while their own employed Mesa developers (and the various others) plug away at making the open source drivers better.
It will be interesting to see what Valve do with it in future, but it's days are not over — yet. SteamOS is dead, long live SteamOS.
Note: Since people clearly didn't get the joke about "SteamOS is dead, long live SteamOS". It's a play on the saying, due to the amount of times people and the media have claimed SteamOS/Steam Machines are dead. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Is this reactivation because of Windows 10 S? Or was the previous update simply so challenging from technical point of view?
We'll probably never know...
We'll probably never know...
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Joeyboots80 Jun 16, 2017
Good to know that Steamos is still being worked on. ^_^
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A quick necro: Debian 9.0 has been released. Time for SteamOS 3.0?
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Steam machines sold more expensive, than their Windows counterparts. Alienware Alpha with Windows costs $50 lesss, than Alienware Steam machine (as an example).
I think it's was a sabotage.
They never included SteamOS as an OS in Linux OS statistics. For years!
Yes, I gratitude for pushing, but it's half-force pushing. Since VR releases in Steam, they almost forgotten all this stuff, because there are no VR game for, which works in Linux (outta of box)
I think it's was a sabotage.
They never included SteamOS as an OS in Linux OS statistics. For years!
Yes, I gratitude for pushing, but it's half-force pushing. Since VR releases in Steam, they almost forgotten all this stuff, because there are no VR game for, which works in Linux (outta of box)
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