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Steam is the world's largest digital game distribution platform, supporting all major operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux or SteamOS, Valve's own distribution derived from the acclaimed Debian GNU/Linux OS.
[...] There are approximately 6,500 titles in the Steam library. Almost all of them are being supported on the Microsoft Windows platform, a little over 2,300 have support for the Mac OS X operating system, and 1,500 titles offer support for Valve's SteamOS and any other GNU/Linux distribution out there.
[...] Even more good news: [...] Many other games will have support for the Linux platform soon, mainly because Valve will finally release its Steam Machines gaming console / personal computer in November, which will be powered by the company's Debian-based SteamOS GNU/Linux operating system.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 22 2015, @07:56AM
Sonys problem was that they forgot why OtherOS was included in the first place.
Right from the start, they knew people would want to run Linux on the PS3. The Linux community has some really hardcore technical people, that can get Linux running on basically anything that catches their interest.
The game pirating community is easy to keep out compared to the Linux community, because the Linux community has a lot more resources. The game pirating community is basically 99.9% "leechers" and 0.1% breakers. The problem is that the kind of "copy" protection used in consoles doesn't care about copying, it cares about running, and thus both communities want to break it with the purpose of running stuff. If the Linux community breaks it with the purpose of running Linux, a week later the same trick will be used for running pirated games. You can't separate the two because of the way the protection is designed.
OtherOS gave the Linux community what they wanted without needing to break the protection, and thus the pirating community was on their own with their few resources.
This strategy worked. It kept the pirates out for as long as OtherOS existed. When the pirates finally got through the first layer, somebody at Sony panicked. OtherOS was removed, the people who had been running Linux on their PS3s got pissed off, and suddenly Sony was up against not just the Linux community but a pissed off Linux community. The remaining layers of protection were gone in a few weeks.
Though in the end, it may have worked out to Sonys advantage after all. The Linux community got so pissed about OtherOS that they are refusing to buy PS4s, and thus have no interest in breaking it.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 22 2015, @02:10PM
Sounds believable. I heard a story about emulation. Yeah I know this is Sony and I'm mixing the streams, but consoles like to sell oldgen stuff at the usual premium price, while otheros could run MESS. So how you you sell SuperMarioBrosRemake-2015 on the PS3 for the usual $50 if someone can just stick linux, MESS, and a snes rom of the original MarioBros for "free"? (Free in quotes in that the snes rom is technically illegal)
I played with my retro-pi for a couple weeks till I got sick of it. Probably dig it out and fool around some more later. Chopperlifter and the original mariobros and for some reason the earlier the arcade ripoff the better the gameplay so out comes missile command and pacman and asteroids. The "modern gaming experience" sucks compared to asteroids on Atari2600 (in an emulator), even if the modern stuff has higher resolution.