I'm really glad they went with Debian.
The only downside is that Debian stable is only supported for 3 years. By the time SteamOS becomes stable, they'll only get another 1 year of support from their upstream. Of course, they can do the work themselves, but if they'd gone w/ Ubuntu LTS, they'd have 5 years.
It won't be popular to say, but going with CentOS 7 might have also been good. That gets you almost 10 years of updates!.... It just needs to hurry up and be released first!
The only downside is that Debian stable is only supported for 3 years. By the time SteamOS becomes stable, they'll only get another 1 year of support from their upstream. Of course, they can do the work themselves, but if they'd gone w/ Ubuntu LTS, they'd have 5 years.
It won't be popular to say, but going with CentOS 7 might have also been good. That gets you almost 10 years of updates!.... It just needs to hurry up and be released first!
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