Steam Box zal Linux gebruiken en geen Windows 8

Gtamen 7 januari 2013 om 11:04 uur

Goed nieuws voor onze grote vriend RDJ en zijn mede Linux fanboys. De Duitse website Golem meld dat het console van Valve, de Steam Box, Linux zal gebruiken en niet Windows 8. De onderstaande quote is via Google Chrome vertaald dus het zal wat taalfoutjes kunnen hebben.

Developed by Valve's own PC Games Console Steam Box is obviously with Linux , do not come with Windows. And she's not the only exciting hardware project that Valve will introduce 2013 publicly.

Could guess it already, because Valve boss Gabe Newell has Windows 8 for a disaster : The Steam Box does not come with Windows, but with Linux. This confirmed to us Ben Krasnow, a. Valves of hardware developers on demand This will give the in the open beta located Linux client from Valve's download and community platform Steam a whole new meaning - especially because Linux and the big-picture mode is supported.

With Big Picture can offered via Steam PC games including matching controller support are made fit for TV, game pads, and playing on the sofa. The range of custom PC games on Steam is growing and already includes not only indie games. This is also a growing range of Linux games, piece by piece, even if Windows and Mac games still make up the bulk of the offer.

Valve employees and mechanical engineer Krasnov said last Saturday, the 29th December 2012, on the SSIM conference on his personal projects: In his spare time he builds body scanners among others - Golem.de reported on his X-ray experiments with tool smuggling chicken. Before 2011 he helped, along with Jeri Ellsworth to build the hardware department of Valve, he built as an entrepreneur, among other input devices for use in computed tomography. The devices used for their experiments scientists in brain research.


His experience with input devices, imaging, image analysis and electronic Krasnow should also benefit, because according to him Valve is working on augmented reality and virtual reality projects. It is unclear whether this also with the developers about the VR glasses Oculus is cooperating. Whether the AR and VR projects as early as 2013 to advantage, wrote Krasnow not us.

However, it is according to him not only remain at the official presentation of the Steam Box: "The Hardware Lab also has a few secret projects that will be published in 2013 We have a good group of electronic and mechanical engineers, and we look forward to some real. "build cool stuff , so Krasnow. Already in the summer of 2012 criticized the Valve-guide has a frustrating lack of innovation in the field of computer hardware - in a job advertisement. In which they said also: "... we want to change."

It is therefore interesting to see if it already 25th at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2013, by the to 29 March 2013 in San Francisco takes place, give the first concrete hardware ideas from Valve, or whether the company will wait until the big U.S. game trade show E3 2013, the 11th of to 13 June 2013 held in Las Vegas.

Sony Computer Entertainment, Nintendo and Microsoft could use the Steam box so soon get a serious competitor in the PC market - while Ouya attacks from the mobile-side with its eponymous Android games console Ouya.

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