Rumor: Valve console will be Linux based and revealed this year
1/5/13 9:40pm
Rumors about a possible Valve console (or Steam Box as it was affectionately called by the press), ran rampant all throughout 2012 and oddly enough, Gabe Newell eventually confirmed there was truth to the rumors, as the company would like to get into the home entertainment market one day.
Now that we know a Valve developed console is a possibility, do we know any possible features it may have? Other than streaming Steam content and using Big Picture Mode, not as such no. But we do have yet another rumor as to what a possible feature could be, as well as a possible reveal window.
A NeoGAF user by the alias of alexandros, has translated an article from the German website Golem.de, which supposedly highlights a speech Valve electronics engineer Ben Krasnow gave in Germany on December 29, in which he talks about the console.
Apparently, Krasnow said it will run on Linux as opposed to Windows to provide an open platform for developers and the company should be revealing it this year. When? E3 is said to be the most likely time and it certainly won’t be earlier than GDC.
We can’t confirm that this is legit right now, but given Gabe's previous confessions (the home entertainment plan and his hatred for Windows 8), and how much work Valve is putting into making Steam and Linux compatible, it’s certainly has a ring of believability to it.
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Apparently, Krasnow said it will run on Linux as opposed to Windows to provide an open platform for developers and the company should be revealing it this year. When? E3 is said to be the most likely time and it certainly won’t be earlier than GDC. write my paper
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I am certain though that they knew exactly what they are doing. So I guess, there's nothing to worry about. Well, I am confident with their strategies after all. - JustFab
Juggernaut
It will run Linux then in a year they will change it claiming it's to prevent piracy. Thus ruining it for all the people legitly running Firefox as the web browser on it... It's PS3 all over again.
(Yes, I still carry a grudge over that move)
Leaf
I don't think you even understand how *nix works gayben can't just edit loonix to valves needs and claim it as there own or not have the OS open source it wouldn't be linux and it would violate the GNU GPL meaning valve would have to make there own OS from scratch which would A cost way to much and B be fucking retarded the OS is going to be like any other distro but heavily based around gaming out of the box so if the console is a nix system people will be able to do what ever the fuck they please to the OS also who uses FF on linux
Sacrificed Abomination
Most consoles run on a form of Linux or Unix, which is customized by the publisher, so this isn't really anything new. It's not like The PS3 runs Windows, Sony's competitors OS, and even the Xbox 360 runs on a form of Linux or Unix. It's just easier to build a console OS from Linux or Unix because they are much more customizable than just straight using a PC OS.
Mr.McMister
The 360 actually runs a heavily modified Windows CE which may or may not contain code influenced by *nix kernel code, but it is still windows. Microsoft has had windows products in the embedded space for years(see win ce on the dreamcast). Microsoft uses special licencing for Windows CE and other embedded offering which allow the company contracting it's use access to the source code. If you look hard enough you can find parts of the source code for various versions of Win CE floating around the dark corners of the interwebs.