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Valve launches SteamOSValve launches SteamOSPosted Sep 24, 2013 4:44 UTC (Tue) by mikemol (subscriber, #83507)In reply to: Valve launches SteamOS by salimma Parent article: Valve launches SteamOS
Gabe Newell is no fool. You can bet he's closely watched Google's experience with Android, and has seen what happens when you have to re-merge later after a fork.
The simplest thing for them to do is most likely to deploy an OS on top of the stock kernel. That lets them control everything they wish to control, and get as much assistance on the rest of the stack as they could want.
They don't need to create a console that can't be copied. Like Google with the Play store, their money is in the distribution rights--and they already have those.
This also means that SteamOS is definitely not a permanent thing. The moment PC hardware stops seeing continual improvement, is no longer performance-competitive with some other platform, and their users have moved on, they'll move on, too.
(No guesses as to when that will happen, though; the PC is the Lich of computing platforms...)
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Valve launches SteamOS Posted Sep 24, 2013 6:39 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Of course, valve believes that openness is the way forward for gaming and that this will be on Linux, or something like Linux. So they probably think that getting their ecosystem onto Linux will enable it to continue past the PC, as Linux will as well.
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