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That sound you just heard was millions of credit cards simultaneously maxing out: Steam’s annual winter sale has just begun, and you can see all the deals right here.
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The Steam Machines have begun arriving. Valve’s beta program for the SteamOS-centric living room consoles has selected and contacted its 300 beta testers and shipped the consoles. The first ones arrived this weekend, and the unboxing videos and photos have already begun surfacing all over the Internet. The program released a variety of models to […]
If console gamers have the PS4 and Xbox One to be excited about, Valve has given the master race and their incessantly upgraded next, next-gen PC hardware something to tinker with. You can now download the first public beta version of SteamOS, the Linux-based and gaming-centered operating system.
The current version of SteamOS is based on Debian 7 plus the Gnome desktop environment. As Ars Technica notes, this beta build is for the earliest of early adopters. Bugs and glitches aside, “all it is today is a way to run a limited subset of your existing Steam library on an odd version of Steam that requires a dedicated computer.” Another thing to keep in mind is that the beta only supports NVIDIA graphics cards, though the final version will include support for AMD and Intel graphics. Here’s an overview shared by YouTuber Marcelo Salvador. Skip to 3:00 in the video to see SteamOS – or at least Steam in SteamOS – in action:
You can download the SteamOS beta from its official website. Valve also posted installation instructions here, which by the way clearly state that the process will erase all content on the target drive, so you might want to consider installing it on a virtual (Steam) machine for now like Marcelo did.
[via Ars Technica]
Valve has just rolled out a public beta version of SteamOS to the masse. Just in case you were wondering what the heck SteamOS is all about, it happens to be an open-sourced Linux-based operating system, and Valve claims that your experience with it would be most satisfying if you already happen to carry a decent amount of previous experience with the operating system prior to giving the public beta version a go.
SteamOS happens to be a derivative of Debian GNU/Linux. A little bit of history lesson here – SteamOS 1.0, obviously the first version that rolled out, is known as ‘alchemist’, where it will be based on the Debian ‘Wheezy’ (stable 7.1) distribution. Debian is also known to be one of the distributions of the Linux operating system, and Wheezy has been touted to be a current stable release of Debian. There are some major changes made to the public beta version of SteamOS, where among them include backported eglibc 2.17 from Debian testing, the inclusion of different third-party drivers and updated graphics stack, updated kernel tracking to the 3.10 longterm branch, and a custom graphics compositor designed to provide a seamless transition between Steam, its games and the SteamOS system overlay, among others.
Valve SteamOS Public Beta Version Released original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Following yesterday’s promise, gamers who don’t mind things a bit gritty can now head over to SteamDB and download the release of SteamOS. As anticipated, the release is a beta offering, and because of the operating system’s Linux underpinning, it is recommended only those who are familiar with the OS opt to download. The download […]
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It’s time for the Steam Machines to begin arriving, starting with the 300 lucky SteamOS beta participants which are being contacted as early as this afternoon. Straight from the source we’ve learned that those that’ve been in contact with Valve about the beta program and have been selected will be contacted at approximately 2PM PST […]
Valve’s Steam has been a service many PC gamers have used on a daily, if not hourly, basis. Steam has some kind of big sale going on at nearly all times, and its Steam Mobile application has certainly made it harder for those of us not glued to our computers to ignore these sales. Things are only going to get harder as Valve has announced they’ve released some updates to its Steam Mobile for iOS app. (more…)
Valve’s Steam Mobile Receives iOS 7 Redesign, Other Improvements original content from Ubergizmo. 
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