By Ishaan . September 23, 2013 . 10:30am
Valve have announced a new Linux-based operating system specifically designed around their Steam service and online storeâ"itâs called SteamOS, and its purpose is to let you access your Steam games in the living room. On the Steam website [1] , Valve write:
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As weâve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, weâve 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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SteamOS supposedly offers âsignificant performance increasesâ in graphical processing, and Valve say theyâre currently pursuing audio improvements and reductions in input latency as well. The OS will also support media and music streaming services.
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The SteamOS operating system will be available as a free download soon, and will also be available as a freely licensable operating system for hardware manufacturers.
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The goal of SteamOS, Valve say, is to allow users to have the ability to alter or replace any part of the software or hardware theyâre using. The operating system appears to be one of three steps in a Valve âliving roomâ strategy [2] . Two more steps in their plan look like they will be revealed soon.
Video game stories from other sites on the web. These links leave Siliconera.
Links
- ^ the Steam website (store.steampowered.com)
- ^ Valve âliving roomâ strategy (store.steampowered.com)
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