SteamOS announced by Valve - The Free, Linux-based OS

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Just 2 hours back Valve has announced it's most ambitious project yet, SteamOS - which is aiming to be the first Operating System primarily used for gaming "for living room machines". Valve are also emphasising that they are achieving "significant performance increase in graphic processing".

A extract from Valve says, “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.”

According to the announcement, the Operating System “combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen”. The system is expected to be similar to what nVidia's shield is, ie streaming content to your television.

For the second of three announcements from Valve this week, another announcement is being expected from Valve on Wednesday.

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Aman27deep said:
This is primarily for gaming. All games will be very well optimised, and you'll get (awesome) Valve support.
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This will be then one of the prospective events for the Linux platform – ultimately getting the hardware OEMs to take their Linux support seriously and getting the popular titles running on the platform.
 
Optimising Linux for a graphic-intensive gaming environment is no mean task, but then considering that it's a comparatively "light" OS with not too many bells and whistles, it probably makes more sense to have an OS which won't hog processing resource for itself for non-gaming tasks.
 
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