Originally posted by chithanh
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Valve has been advertising Ubuntu in Steam, so I think the relationship between the two companies is already very close.
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubunt...e-322977.shtml
Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubunt...e-322977.shtml
Also, there is no statement from them in the Mir thing, since the statement is on the page from before Mir was announced. They might as well decide it's not comercially viable for them to support Mir. On the other hand, the whole Mir thing might have been partially based on Steam's needs (NOTE THIS IS ONLY MY SPECULATION, please don't assume this is founded on anything and start spreading FUD because of me). Also, it might be easier for Valve to just base their Linux on Ubuntu.
You are correct, and that is why I said it is only a very remote possibility. The Solaris and BSD workstation markets however are losing significance, and if X applications run well enough under Mir there might not be enough incentive to continue supporting X. The inertia of business customers is much larger than of consumers and so any change will probably not happen overnight as it did with Flash.
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