Valve's SteamOS Now Ready to Download

[RogueKitsune]

I am gonna try to throw it on to a VM before i piece together a machine to run it

 

[lunyone]

Recent news: Microsoft drops Windows 8 License down to $29.99 for those considering the Steam OS..... Lol!

 

[JD88]

What's very cool about this is how it has access to a full Gnome desktop environment meaning you can install whatever you want on it and modify whatever you want. Anyone who was calling this a closed platform was badly mistaken.

 

[Bispo Guerra]

será realmente "funcional" na versão 3.0
will actually be "functional" in version 3.0

 

[photonboy]

Darksable,
A 500GB is advisable because you'd be installing GAMES, you know kind of the point of this thing? Obviously you can install to a much smaller drive.

 

[randomizer]

Whats the point of STEAM OS ?? There is quite a few games for linux anyway........

Long term there will be more. However, SteamOS is designed for streaming games from a Windows machine to your TV. That's going to be its primary short to medium term purpose.

 

[Styromaniac]

You can trust any torrent if the checksum matches. Find the checksum for the official download and then verify the unofficial torrent that it matches.

 

[Styromaniac]

I am personally very happy to see that this is based on Debian Wheezy and how they went with the GNOME desktop. This beta OS should be fairly easy to use. Also, if Valve fails to give you the instructions your looking for, like perhaps installing AMD drivers, I'd look at the website CCHTML. Keep in mind that the kernel is newer and Valve is backporting GPU drivers. This would very likely affect the version of X.org included. Linux noobs should save themselves from headaches by not dedicating their PC to this beta software that is SteamOS.

 

[Durandul]

The new consoles have 500 GB of storage. I'm sure they put it there for marketing reasons.

It's a brand new distro, give it some time. You do indeed need 500GB right now (tested it personally), but that will change, as well as the graphics drivers and whatnot. It's a rough build, but at least it works and runs games. But it has a long, long ways to go.

 

[Durandul]

No way uefi or 500gb are hard requirements...I don't buy it. I'm tempted to try on my and machine, too.

They are in that shit breaks at the moment if they aren't enabled (I've tried, when I switched to meet requirements, instantly solved my issues.). This will change. Remember, this has been publicly available for less than two days.

 

[Mike Coberly]

AMD/Intel support coming soon?
Looks like I'll be waiting. Real shame that.

 

[Slatteew]

500gb is recommended for all the downloads of games you are "anticipated" to download. Not sure if there is that many games that are supported on Linux at the moment. I know about 10 of my games are, but i will still be trying it. Linux is classified in "Beta" because it is finished to an extend, just the OS though. Drivers and other things are not included. That is where Linux enthusiast must use either terminal or the internet to find the proper drivers for their cards (Nvidia at the moment, AMD will be coming later). I will be installing it here in a few, going to see if i can add the option to dual boot. I used Linux already to try and run Steam games and it ran very well. If it is anything like that, everything you need will be online, just have to search for it. Furthermore, one thing i noticed for Linux was there is no support for Fan control drivers, so i had to keep the graphics a little lower than i would on Windows, or else my card would get really hot! These are just preliminary observations from myself.

 

[cypeq]

running AMD... have to wait -_-'

 

[IndignantSkeptic]

So will all Linux games work in Steam OS?

 

[JD88]

So will all Linux games work in Steam OS?

Yeah they will.

 

[johnnyb105]

I had no problems downloading all is good!

 

[Basel Ay]

oh my god its the impossible requirements os this os will never enter my pc

 

[DarkSable]

oh my god its the impossible requirements os this os will never enter my pc

It's a beta...

The actual release will have very few, if any, of these requirements.

 

[stevenicks]

after downloading it they few days ago I went to unzip it and mcafee live safe says it has a virus in it .. so I don't trust the link until I know for fact it has not had a virus linked to it.. any idea's ?

 

[DarkSable]

after downloading it they few days ago I went to unzip it and mcafee live safe says it has a virus in it .. so I don't trust the link until I know for fact it has not had a virus linked to it.. any idea's ?

It's not a virus, Macafee is just a POS which tries to make you think it's working well by throwing up false positives all the time.

This is a download directly from valve, dude - you really think one of the biggest names in gaming would release a virus instead of an OS?

Macafee probably sees that it has some components of an OS (cuz, you know, it's an OS) and alerts you for the same reason it will always say that any program that modifies windows is a virus, no matter what it does.

 

[randomizer]

after downloading it they few days ago I went to unzip it and mcafee live safe says it has a virus in it .. so I don't trust the link until I know for fact it has not had a virus linked to it.. any idea's ?

Unfortunately you will never know for a fact if it has a virus in it. You can only know for a fact if it has or doesn't have a specific virus. Mcafee is just telling you that based on some heuristics it applied to the file it looks suspicious. Considering that what you downloaded will wipe your entire hard drive and modify your boot loader it is probably right to warn you anyway.