Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Valve Helping Arch Linux With Build Service Infrastructure & Secure Signing Enclave

Valve's SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Arch-Linux-Collaboration

[MillionToOne]

Valve is one of the better billion dollar corporations. Thanks Gabe!

[flower]

Thanks Valve and Gabe. To few companies and organisations try to push the Linux Desktop. It's very nice to see!

[schmidtbag]

Valve is one of the better billion dollar corporations. Thanks Gabe!

That's what happens when you aren't publicly traded. I firmly believe the stock market is the main driver to why so many companies are so terrible to deal with.

[Spike29]

Valve + Arch + Linux = 3 words... Half-Life 3 confirmed!

[lectrode]

Proton for ARM found shortly before Valve announces direct funding to bolster package build infrastructure automation for Arch Linux...coincidence? Maybe. But damn I'm really hoping this is the push needed to get automated builds for an official ARM spin of Arch Linux (potentially laying the groundwork for additional spins like Risc-V).

If the fabled Steam Deck 2 ends up being ARM-based, it'd only make sense for Valve to get upstream supporting the same architecture.


Michael No mention of Valves new updated EULA removing a mandatory arbitration clause in favor of a clause protecting the rights of their customers to take them to court?

[davidbepo]

Awesome
valve not being based challenge (impossible)

[bple2137]

Fantastic! Valve guys are smart. They know that the only way to make their OS better is to improve it from the ground up in upstream, not just put thick layer of downstream patches and hacks on top to only serve their interest and only support their hardware.

[primary]

Things like these are the reason why I buy my games from steam store.

[skeevy420]

That's what happens when you aren't publicly traded. I firmly believe the stock market is the main driver to why so many companies are so terrible to deal with.

Read about Ford v. Dodge. That's the reason so many publicly traded companies are terrible to deal with. The gist is that the Dodge Brothers sued Henry Ford when Ford tried to pay his workers more. The Dodge Brothers, being Ford shareholders, took offense that they'd be getting less money on their investments when the workers got a raise so they sued and won.

That's ruling started the shareholder-first economy around publicly traded companies and why private companies like Valve can take more risks. Private companies don't have to worry about being sued by their shareholders when it comes to risky investments like Linux or doing things like paying workers above market rate. That same ruling is why using higher quality materials can be seen as a negative if a lower grade and cost material is good enough to make the product. A century of lower grade materials has turned into having a science around planned obsolescence.