Valve Confirms Linux Steam Box Will Be Open Platform

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Valve Confirms Linux Steam Box Will Be Open Platform

Valve's Gabe Newell has confirmed their Steam Box will be Linux-based and will be open for its users and not a locked-down piece of hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI3MDI

[d2kx]

The real Steam Box will be amazing.

[entropy]

The real Steam Box will be amazing.

Tell us more about it.

[efikkan]

This sounds very good. They are also considering a high precision low-latency controller, which involves making Linux drivers for a non HID-device
I seriously hope they select a low-latency kernel to go along with it, which would also help for a smoother framerate.

[newwen]

This sounds very good. They are also considering a high precision low-latency controller, which involves making Linux drivers for a non HID-device
I seriously hope they select a low-latency kernel to go along with it, which would also help for a smoother framerate.

What about integrating the Brain Fuck Scheduler from Con Kolivas?

[mark45]

I wonder if it's gonna be using X.org, Wayland or something else.

[efikkan]

I wonder if it's gonna be using X.org, Wayland or something else.

The first iteration of Steam boxes will most certainly user X.org, Wayland is not going to be ready in time.

[BO$$]

What about the graphics drivers? They surely can't ship with the open source versions. Hahaha it's gonna be so amusing hearing all the linux zealots calling valve names that they didn't choose their wonderfully fantastic open source drivers. In linux apparently the only people thinking are the ones that try to make money out of it. I'd love to hear what the open source commies have to say about this.

[efikkan]

What about the graphics drivers? They surely can't ship with the open source versions. Hahaha it's gonna be so amusing hearing all the linux zealots calling valve names that they didn't choose their wonderfully fantastic open source drivers. In linux apparently the only people thinking are the ones that try to make money out of it. I'd love to hear what the open source commies have to say about this.

The obvious choice would be to ship with Nvidia hardware and their official drivers. Those who dislike this can switch the driver and/or hardware as they please. Valve is not going to lock it down. Those who choose to suffer with the open drivers are free to do it

[BO$$]

The obvious choice would be to ship with Nvidia hardware and their official drivers. Those who dislike this can switch the driver and/or hardware as they please. Valve is not going to lock it down. Those who choose to suffer with the open drivers are free to do it

Exactly. And then, as valve posts statistics, we'll know exactly what percentage of linux users is sane and what percentage is insane.