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Valve launches SteamOS

Valve launches SteamOS

Posted Sep 24, 2013 6:52 UTC (Tue) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Valve launches SteamOS by k8to
Parent article: Valve launches SteamOS

I guess they need to solve the bufferbloat problem to achieve this, don't they? An NX session on the company intranet 9 time zones away was barely usable, for games on the internet it must be horrible.


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Valve launches SteamOS

Posted Sep 24, 2013 7:33 UTC (Tue) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]

> I guess they need to solve the bufferbloat problem to achieve this, don't they? An NX session on the company intranet 9 time zones away was barely usable, for games on the internet it must be horrible.

Valve wasn't talking about games on the internet though -- they were talking about streaming to a Steam box from a Windows/Mac PC in the next room. On the other hand, I do wonder how they are dealing with wireless latency issues, since most non-geeks don't want to string cable from PC to living room in order to get a nice solid GigE wired connection.

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