Arch Linux Announces Collaboration With Valve
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GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux
This is some pretty exciting news! The Arch Linux team have announced a new direct collaboration with Valve (Steam). Something that's not too surprising, since Valve do fund a lot of open source work, and SteamOS for Steam Deck is built directly on Arch Linux so working more closely together makes a lot of sense.
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OSTechNix ☛ Arch Linux Announces Collaboration With Valve
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Linuxiac ☛ Arch GNU/Linux Announces Collaboration with Valve
Valve and Arch GNU/Linux join forces, speeding up key projects with a build service and secure signing enclave.
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Arch Linux and Valve team up to make Steam gaming even better
Valve and Linux have been making big strides lately, and now, it seems it's getting even better. Arch Linux has announced that it has struck a partnership with Valve that will help it do its job better. And given how the Steam Deck uses Arch Linux as a base, this will likely mean good things for gamers.
Valve steps up support for Arch Linux with new infrastructure - Neowin
Valve announced a new collaboration with the Arch Linux distribution. The company revealed it will provide financial backing for two crucial Arch Linux initiatives— a build service infrastructure and secure signing enclave.
This collaboration will take off some old pains for Arch Linux. The volunteer developers work on projects in their free time. However, some tasks require an amount of time investment that volunteers alone couldn't reasonably achieve. Valve's backing will allow that focused work to be done through freelance contracts, accelerating progress.
Of these, the main one would be setting up a strong build service. This would automate building and packaging software from source for Arch Linux. It would save volunteers from mundane or repetitive tasks so they could contribute to more creative work, such as making actual software or packaging.
Furthermore, it would be more reliable because it catches errors and makes sure all the software builds cleanly. That is one of those projects that have been talked about for a very long time but never really had dedicated resources.
Only tangentially related and new:
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Shall we play a Game?
Here it comes. Ultimate Edition Arch Gamers has been on the Internet for almost a day. I only have 3 or 4K friends on Facebook. Easy beating on servers, at least here (23 currently). Ironic, I am now building server based Operating Systems.