Steam Box To Be Revealed Next Week?

<p>Gabe Newell has confirmed that Valve will reveal a new piece of hardware next week which it intends to&colon; &&num;8220&semi;bring open source platform Linux into the living room&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking at LinuxCon in New Orleans yesterday&comma; Gabe Newell said&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;There are sets of issues to making sure whatever platform you have works well in a living room environment&period; There are thermal issues and sound issues&comma; but there also a bunch of input issues&period; So the next step in our contribution to this &lbrack;the promotion of Linux for gaming&rsqb; is to release some work we&&num;8217&semi;ve done on the hardware side&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;Next week we&&num;8217&semi;re going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for bringing Linux into the living room&comma; and potentially pointing further down the road to how we can get it even more unified in mobile&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Would you be tempted to purchase a Steam Box&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2013-09-17-gabe-newell-confirms-linux-based-valve-hardware-still-alive">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"zemanta-pixie" style&equals;"margin-top&colon; 10px&semi; height&colon; 15px&semi;"><img class&equals;"zemanta-pixie-img" style&equals;"border&colon; none&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;img&period;zemanta&period;com&sol;pixy&period;gif&quest;x-id&equals;a0860785-f80d-4a13-b1ba-4c2dc62b684d" alt&equals;"" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;