SteamOS "Brewmaster" Is Valve's New Debian 8.1 Based Version

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SteamOS "Brewmaster" Is Valve's New Debian 8.1 Based Version

Brewmaster is Valve's codename for the next version of SteamOS currently available in a preview state. SteamOS Brewmaster is based on Debian 8.1 stable...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SteamOS-Brewmaster

[Ancurio]

There's no word if the "Brewmaster" codename was influenced due to when I delivered beer to the Valve Linux developers on the behalf of Phoronix readers and the Linux community.

It's a hero in Dota2. Also, wasn't the previous release named "Alchemist"? So Alpha -> Beta maybe?

[Michael]

It's a hero in Dota2. Also, wasn't the previous release named "Alchemist"? So Alpha -> Beta maybe?

It was basically just a joke and to toss in another article for those that weren't reading Phoronix a few years ago.

[alexThunder]

It was basically just a joke and to toss in another article for those that weren't reading Phoronix a few years ago.

Turns out Michael is in fact Brewmaster

Btw. afaik the first SteamOS was called Alchemist (a hero from Dota, too) and not Alchemy.

[johnc]

Is there a way to benchmark the SteamOS compositor vs, say, compiz in Ubuntu, kwin in kde, etc.?

[madjr]

I hope they fixed or are looking into some of the issues with their older release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi6VZ0WXBsE

[sirdilznik]

So the next version... Clockwerk? Crystal Maiden? Centaur Warrunner? Clinkz?

Sadly, we're going to have to wait quite a bit for SteamOS "Techies"

[xeekei]

Does this mean even SteamOS has now switched to systemd?

[Daktyl198]

Does this mean even SteamOS has now switched to systemd?

Don't they... kinda not use any of the current init systems? iirc, it just kinda boots the kernel, starts X and then starts Steam + any associated programs. It's not like it has a desktop environment or too many other things running in the background.

[dungeon]

Upgrades are always good - less compliants from new hardware users, more from old