Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

[Stephen Partington]

Whups. wrong link: http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown



On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Stephen Partington
<cryptworks at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well here are the installation options from Steam itself.
>
> http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=204085700
>
> Enjoy! I plan on checking it out at home. Just need to figure out a way to
> shove another drive into my system.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>wrote:
>
>>  I'm curious to see if it's as broken as ubuntu seems to be these days -
>> feedback from adopters here appreciated.
>>
>> I spent 3 days last week trying to get ubuntu working with 13.10 on a
>> fresh install, and since they're forcing use of a desktop cd, and not
>> producing alt installs now, found the install process to be entirely
>> broken.  A new laptop with only EFI boot apparently leaves me few options
>> for distributions, namely excluding debian which I was going to attempt to
>> migrate to avoid ubuntu's steady decline in quality/stability.  Hopefully
>> Valve heads this off using the Ubuntu/Debian base.
>>
>> I spent the weekend attempting to abandon Ubuntu and learning Arch (or
>> trying to) after the ubuntu fail, which wasn't exactly easy, and simply
>> finding just about every step requires some extensive research of packages,
>> lack of automagical setup, and sadly most any ease found in Ubuntu I've
>> apparently taken for granted.  Not to mention I'm not finding pacman
>> packages for most things I need/want (doubt Steam is going to be supported
>> on Arch anytime soon).
>>
>> Maybe Valve injecting their two bits around Debian too will help that,
>> but I doubt it'll support more enterprise-y features like raid, encryption,
>> and lvm as part of the install features I need.  Then again, I wish Ubuntu
>> would just put it back said features or produce an alt cd again including
>> them natively until someone fixes their broken desktop installer.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On 12/16/2013 08:40 AM, Shawn Badger wrote:
>>
>>  I don't know how this hasn't made it to the list yet, but Steam
>> released their Debian based gaming OS.
>>  Here is a link to download it
>>
>> http://repo.steamstatic.com/download/
>>
>>
>>
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>
> Stephen
>
>


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rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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