Hello Linux Geeksters. A while ago, Valve has announced the first 12 partners that have created or intend to create Steam Machines, gaming consoles running on SteamOS, which will be presented at the Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.…
Hello Linux Geeksters. A while ago, Valve has announced the first 12 partners that have created or intend to create Steam Machines, gaming consoles running on SteamOS, which will be presented at the Computer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.…
What’s new: The second SteamOS 1.0 Beta ISO image has been released, coming with bug-fixes and updates. Among others, it comes with Mesa 10.0.1, the driver for Intel Graphics, a kernel patch with support for KMS, OpenGL 3.3, 3D pass-through…
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Valve has released the first Beta version of SteamOS last week. It requires UEFI support, Intel or AMD 64-bit processor, 4GB or more memory, 500GB or larger disk and NVIDIA, AMD or Intel…
Hello Linux Geeksters. It looks like Valve’s Steam Controller will work well on other Linux systems as well, not just the SteamOS, needing only the Human Interface Device (HID) driver loaded in the Linux kernel and not a specific kernel…
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Valve has released their first beta version of SteamOS 1.0 “Alchemist”, based on Debian Wheezy. While Debian Wheezy does not use up to date packages from stability reasons, SteamOS 1.0 back-ports fresh Nvidia…
Hello Linux Gamers. Piixl, a non-Valve British computer manufacturer has created Jetpack, a gaming computer that uses SteamOS as default, but has support for both Linux and Windows. They have been working with Valve to specially optimize the SteamOS system…
Hello Linux Geeksters. Valve has officially joined The Linux Foundation. This decision is quite logical, since Valve has made gaming on Linux possible, via its Steam client. From the official announcement: “Joining the Linux Foundation is one of many ways…
Hello Linux Gamers. Joe Danger and Joe Danger 2: The movie, which were initially launched for PlayStation 3 will be officially available for SteamOS. The two games will be specially optimized to work on Steam. Also, Joe Danger 2 comes…
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Valve has initiated some ambitions projects: the SteamOS, a Linux operating system optimized for gaming, the Steam Machine, a gaming colsole that will run with SteamOS and the Steam Controller, a game controller…
Hello Linux Geeksters. Asked about Valve’s SteamOS, this is what Linus Torvalds, the Linux godfather said at LinuxCon: Valve’s Steam for Linux is the best opportunity to help the Linux desktop, he said. They’ll do this by setting a standard…