Valve's SteamOS announced

Today, Valve has announced the first part of it's plan to bring Steam to the living room.

This part takes the form of a free Linux-based operating called SteamOS. No exact release date is available, but they say it will be ready to download "soon".

Quote from their web site:

As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

More here: http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

 

We should see another two announcements on this, later this week.

Presumably, at least one of them will be about a SteamBOX, or Steam Box. The hardware.

 

Ooh Ooh, very nice! Not going to buy it but very curious about the outcome!
If Valves big titles run perfectly on it, then there will be some success!
If developers port their existing games and new games to SteamOS, then even more success.
I'm sure Valve will take a small hit because of all the gamers who already own those Source games....
If it allows Source mods, then even more success

 

You won't have to buy it, it will be free to download.

 

I meant the Box its-self, but yeah, I may try out the Steam Linux operating system.

 

So Steam will turn my PC into my game console...seems like a rather drastic step to get to pc gaming in Linux and steam. But of course I'll try it.":O}

 

Probably not, but you could replace your PC with a SteamBox and just play Steam games.... which you mentioned elsewhere the selection sucks...

From my point of view, there's nothing compelling for me to try one. All of my games run in Linux with WinSteam and LinSteam. So why would I go elsewhere?

But other points of view, buying a SteamBox would allow them to play their already-purchased Steam games on their TV with no hassle. Just like a console. Download, play, enjoy!