PA on SteamOS?

So Valve just announced that they'll have their own OS. From what I can gather it's aimed for aimed at the livingroom. Info here.

Is PA going to work on SteamOS as well or is it too early to ask?

Just imagine. A planet getting smashed, while the amazing music blares through surround sound speakers. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it

steam os is linux, according to any consistant form of logic, yes pa should run on the steambox.
...depending on it's hardware.

With a pad Oo ?

hey i'm trying to play it with the leap
anyways steambox is supposed to be played with mouse and keyboard. you can plug in either that or a controler.

it's not steambox though, from what I've read, you can put in what you want...

wasn't the big reveal supposed to be today?
who has the linkies? if not hold out until the pressconference has happened

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

also linked in the OP

well what i'm really curious about is will it run on the steambox? what are it's specs?

Steamos is a no-brainer. Linux, so yes, PA will run on it.

I want to see a red name say yes otherwise I'd say it's up in the air.

how so? PA runs on linux as of now

Why install an OS designed to run on a TV with a remote/pad if you are going to plug a mouse and a keyboard on it? Oo

Not all of Linux. My understanding of it is that there are variations or distro's or whatever they are called. So there could be some unexpected problems, putting them off from 'porting' (if you'd call it that) untill they finish the game first since they are so close to Beta.

A yes will probably have an added butt. It could be a maybe ask again later they could say no as well, who knows!!!!!

I just don't want to 'hype' something there's no red post about it.

that's true, curently supported linux distros are
- Ubuntu (big boss of the linux world) 12.04 / 13.04
- Linux Mint 14 / 15
- ArchLinux 64bit: Symlink libudev.so.1 to libudev.so.0 workaround still required
- debian stable (wheezy) - newer libc6 needed
- debian testing (jessie) - no modifications
- Gentoo x64 with open-source radeon r600 driver -- also ok. All the graphic stack is from the unstable (~) tree, mesa and LLVM from the git with the r600 LLVM compiler enabled. Apart from libudev fix -- no special treatment was involved, just the standard 3D hardware support.
- Fedora 18 x64 with the symlink workaround.


that's quite a bit if not to say ALL currently legitemate linux distros. I think it's also safe to assume that Steam will go the same way Ubuntu has with their OS, that is to say UNITY (this bad boy can run games, it can run directx11 and well, but in any case PA (and all other games of the future) are open GL, which unity also pushes foward).

It's safe to say that Gabe newell won't release a distro that is worse at running games than ubuntu. Maybe at least on par.

Most of users use few popular distributions which don't have any comparability problems and everyone else (who use Gentoo, Arch, Slackware) can fix problems on their own without any developer support.

Main problems of Linux isn't with distros, but in lack (or just low quality) of development and debugging tools for gamedev.

It is impossible to speculate if this is something we can support until we have it ourselves. That said, we of course would love to expand the platforms we support in the future.

It's perfectly possible to speculate

pretty sure I was speculating before

Thx for the answer!

Sorry, impossible for us. We prefer speculation first informed by data.

But whait, why shouldnt pa run on steam os?as far as i understood it will be installable on a client u want and be able to pick up a stream from your pc(whereteam is running)
If the pc is running the game and just streaming, all you need is a good network,a box to comnect your tv,network and wireless keyboard and mouse and youreready to play...if thats the case, even a rasperry pi may be enouth as client

i didn't get it like that. what link made you think this?