Downloading now, hopefully it'll be done before I have to go to work. Thought I'd spread the news. The Valve servers are getting slammed so there's a lot of lag and cut downloads right now, thankfully I got a nice torrent.
repo.steamstatic.com/download/
Alternate source with torrent: http://steamdb.info/blog/35/
Downloading now, hopefully it'll be done before I have to go to work. Thought I'd spread the news. The Valve servers are getting slammed so there's a lot of lag and cut downloads right now, thankfully I got a nice torrent.
repo.steamstatic.com/download/
Alternate source with torrent: http://steamdb.info/blog/35/
Based on Debian Stable (Wheezy), uses X, not wayland or mir, comes with gnome3.
Based on Debian Stable (Wheezy), uses X, not wayland or mir, comes with gnome3.
Note that SteamOS is not a simple .iso, installing it will reformat your drives. Unless you want to lose your data, use an empty drive and disconnect all other drives you have attached to the computer until after installing.
Note that SteamOS is not a simple .iso, installing it will reformat your drives. Unless you want to lose your data, use an empty drive and disconnect all other drives you have attached to the computer until after installing.
Stochast1cNote that SteamOS is not a simple .iso, installing it will reformat your drives. Unless you want to lose your data, use an empty drive and disconnect all other drives you have attached to the computer until after installing.
What if you want to dual boot?
[quote=Stochast1c]Note that SteamOS is not a simple .iso, installing it will reformat your drives. Unless you want to lose your data, use an empty drive and disconnect all other drives you have attached to the computer until after installing.[/quote] What if you want to dual boot?
#4 since SteamOS is currently being shipped as a system restore image, you have to install SteamOS first, partition (using gparted or something similiar), then install whatever other OS's you want on the new partition.
Why Valve decided to ship SteamOS this way is a mystery, imo.
#4 since SteamOS is currently being shipped as a system restore image, you have to install SteamOS first, partition (using gparted or something similiar), then install whatever other OS's you want on the new partition.
Why Valve decided to ship SteamOS this way is a mystery, imo.
Stochast1c#4 since SteamOS is currently being shipped as a system restore image, you have to install SteamOS first, partition (using gparted or something similiar), then install whatever other OS's you want on the new partition.
Why Valve decided to ship SteamOS this way is a mystery, imo.
valve wants to force you to use steamOS #illuminati
Maybe it makes it easier for testing, only thing I can think of besides just "Valve."
[quote=Stochast1c]#4 since SteamOS is currently being shipped as a system restore image, you have to install SteamOS first, partition (using gparted or something similiar), then install whatever other OS's you want on the new partition.
Why Valve decided to ship SteamOS this way is a mystery, imo.[/quote]
valve wants to force you to use steamOS #illuminati
Maybe it makes it easier for testing, only thing I can think of besides just "Valve."
Because they don't want very many people using it yet.
Because they don't want very many people using it yet.
DarkNecridBecause they don't want very many people using it yet.
Pretty sure it's not that. They should want as many people as possible to test it out. I'm pretty sure it's to keep the average user (someone who doesn't know what they're doing) from installing it (or mess up installing this).
It only works on Nvidia cards and requires a 500 GB HDD. Guess I can't dual boot. :\
[quote=DarkNecrid]Because they don't want very many people using it yet.[/quote]
Pretty sure it's not that. They should want as many people as possible to test it out. I'm pretty sure it's to keep the average user (someone who doesn't know what they're doing) from installing it (or mess up installing this).
It only works on Nvidia cards and requires a 500 GB HDD. Guess I can't dual boot. :\
BE WARNED THIS OVERWRITES ALL YOUR DATA ON YOUR HARD DRIVE, AND IGNORES PARTITIONS!
Working on installing it on an old hdd I have but i'm not very experienced with linux
[u][b]BE WARNED THIS OVERWRITES ALL YOUR DATA ON YOUR HARD DRIVE, AND IGNORES PARTITIONS![/b][/u]
Working on installing it on an old hdd I have but i'm not very experienced with linux
You can always try a virtual box I guess?
You can always try a virtual box I guess?
#8, that's basically what I meant, not wanting the average user who doesn't know what they're doing is the same as not wanting very many people to use it yet considering the average user who doesn't know what they are doing is by far the vast majority of people using a personal computer.
it's pretty obviously set up as a system restore image so that only enthusiasts who know what they are doing (and much more likely to provide actual feedback) try it out.
#8, that's basically what I meant, not wanting the average user who doesn't know what they're doing is the same as not wanting very many people to use it yet considering the average user who doesn't know what they are doing is by far the vast majority of people using a personal computer.
it's pretty obviously set up as a system restore image so that only enthusiasts who know what they are doing (and much more likely to provide actual feedback) try it out.