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So Valve has officially announced a new OS, I wonder how well it runs on crappy netbook hardware.
http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

oh damn. i dont like newest i want stay old steam.........

It's just an operating system, with gaming in mind, The original steam is still here.

I assume this is just another step towards their goal building an own console. Which has been made public some time in the past.
Steam OS is probably just a derivative of Ubuntu, but with Steam's fullscreen-app as start screen.


Edit: Other sources say its just a thin-client to connect to a Steam-game running on a PC nearby. Hm, kinda pointless I must say, especially if you have to pay the electricity-bill by yourself.

It's both, Chuck.
For the native Linux games it's just a Linux OS, for the Windows/Mac games it's something like a thin client.