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Re: Preferred Linux Distro?
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 2:57 pm
by matt
I feel like if you are hardcore enough to run Gentoo, then you can figure out how to get the game running.
Thanks for the info! We will only be supporting x86. It'll be a 32 bit binary, but we'll make sure it runs on 64 bit editions. Right now we are using the included 32-bit libraries with Steam, but we'll have to figure out how to install our dependencies.
Re: Preferred Linux Distro?
Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 4:47 pm
by Harry Sunderland
SteamOS beta launched today, and it's based off Debian 7.1 Wheezy. I'm not a Linux guy, so I don't know the significance of that, but I thought I'd share:
http://steamdb.info/blog/35/
Re: Preferred Linux Distro?
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 1:39 am
by LobsterSundew
The version of
Debian that
SteamOS is being built on was initially released back in
June 2013 instead of the more recent one released in
October 2013. Some people are complaining about the use of an older version, but Debian is known for how stable its releases become and this should be a good solid base. There is the option to switch from
Big Picture Mode to
GNOME to get a desktop environment which is great to have.
It looks like
Valve went for lean and stable. There is
a customized compositor based on
Xcompmgr which is lightweight. I had never heard of that compositor before so that was one of the most interesting things for me.
Re: Preferred Linux Distro?
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:16 am
by matt
Exciting! I'll probably wait a little for the dust to settle before I mess around with it. I had enough trouble getting Ubuntu installed on my work machine, so I'm a little wary about trying to install a bleeding edge linux distro.
Is anyone running it? Does Neverending Nightmares work on it?

Re: Preferred Linux Distro?
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:00 pm
by sunsetbrew
matt wrote:Exciting! I'll probably wait a little for the dust to settle before I mess around with it.
Wise choice