GeekWire
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
based Valve has not offered any information regarding what motivated its decision to give the Steam Deck a hardware refresh. Since its release in early 2022 , the Deck has reportedly sold approximately 3 million units, and heated up the previously-quiet competition among PC manufacturers to create their own portable gaming PCs.
The Verge
NOVEMBER 11, 2021
The five-hour virtual conference will include discussions of the hardware; games that will appear “on Deck” ; how the Linux handheld can play Windows games via a Proton compatibility layer; a deep dive on the AMD APU that powers it by AMD itself; and of course tips for Steam developers on how to make those things work in their favor.
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GeekWire
DECEMBER 26, 2023
After launching the original Steam Deck in February 2022, the team at Valve, based in Bellevue, Wash., The Steam Deck gives Valve a way to expand the audience for computer games, and runs the software for Valve’s digital gaming storefront Steam on a custom Linux-based OS. Was that a deliberate intention by the team at Valve?
The Verge
JULY 15, 2021
The Steam Deck’s external hardware features. But the actual OS is based on Linux, and will use Proton as a compatibility layer to allow Windows-based games to run without requiring that developers specifically port them for the Steam Deck. Here’s a legend to all of the Deck’s ports and controls: Image: Valve. Image: Valve.
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 12, 2022
DNS, BGP, hardware-based security, Kubernetes, Linux—they’re all in here. Servers/Hardware. Also on the Sysdig blog, Miguel Hernández recaps his KubeCon EU 2022 talk on how attackers used an exposed Prometheus server to exploit Kubernetes clusters. What do I have in store for you this time around? Networking.
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 21, 2022
Welcome to Technology Short Take #151, the first Technology Short Take of 2022. I hope everyone had a great holiday season and that 2022 is off to a wonderful start! Servers/Hardware. Dennis Felsing shares some thoughts on switching to macOS after 15 years on Linux. BIOS updates without a reboot , and under Linux first?
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 27, 2023
Networking William Morgan’s 2022 service mesh recap captures some of the significant events in service mesh in 2022, although through a Linkerd-colored lens. Servers/Hardware What do you think of the ThinkPhone ? Ah, the bygone sounds of yesteryear …what a blast from the past!
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