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Valve announces SteamOS, an operating system built for the living room |
September 23, 2013
It’s not Half Life 3. Not yet, anyway.
Valve announced details of SteamOS on Monday, the first of three announcements the company has promised this week concerning its Steam games retail service and Steam Box home console.
SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system “built around Steam itself,” according to the reveal site.
“SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen,” it continues. “In SteamOS we have achieved significant performance increases in graphics processing, and we’re now targeting audio performance and reductions in input latency at the operating system level.”
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2049255/valve-announces-steamos-an-operating-system-built-for-the-living-room.html#tk.rss_all
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