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I believe he was making a joke about one of the dominant gaming distribution systems being named "Steam".
by jmillikin 14y ago
I believe he was making a joke about one of the dominant gaming distribution systems being named "Steam".
- jpxxx 14y agoOoooooooh. I feel dumb now. :) ty.
- orionblastar 14y agoI'd imagine that Valve would use their own Linux Distro for their Linux Steam client. When they make the GabeCube or whatever, it will run Linux with the Steam Client for Linux and play in TV mode for TV sets. I'd imagine it would also have Netflix, Hulu apps and other stuff added as well to compete with other video game consoles. Since a lot of classic video games are DOS based, they'd just have to use the Linux version of DOSBox to run them, which shouldn't be too hard. In Windows games like Doom, Dark Forces, etc run in the Windows version of DOSBox when bought from Steam. I'm imagining Steam would also port their Sega Genesis emulator to Linux and other things as well. I'd really like to see the Linux based GabeCube or whatever they call it (SteamTV?) that doesn't require a Windows license and can play most video games from Steam.
- sliverstorm 14y agoIt has been nicknamed "SteamBox" by the rumormill. Also, I hope they don't roll their own distro. Customizing an existing distro seems like a much better idea. Considering Steam Linux is currently targeted at Ubuntu, I'm guessing that's the distro of choice.