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Test Upcoming Debian Based SteamOS

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 24, 2015

SteamOS is a Debian based operating system, developed by Valve Corporation specifically for gaming purposes. It lets users play steam games, it comes with limited number of features only. As the primary goal of the operating system is to facilitate gamers, so it hardly has any other application pre-isntalled. However, you can use Debain based package manager to install additional packages. SteamOS Brewmaster 2.30 is currently out for download and testing. It is beta release so it might have unknown bugs that’s why it is not yet recommended for production system. It is powered by Linux kernel 3.18 and offers a new auto-repair service.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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