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Valve Makes SteamOS 2.0 the Official Distro, Now Based on Debian 8.2

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Valve is making SteamOS 2.0 the official version supported by the company, and it looks like it might ship with the Steam Machines after all.

The Valve developers said a while back that they didn't intend to upgrade to Debian 8 "Jessie" anytime soon, but they now have a branch of the OS that's using this particular distro. They still maintain SteamOS based on Debian 7, and that's a little bit strange. What's interesting is the fact that SteamOS 2.0 "Brewmaster" has been getting quite a few updates in these past few weeks, which only means that it's getting ready for launch.

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