Valve Announces SteamOS

<p>In the first announcement to come from Valve&comma; as teased by their <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;livingroom&sol;">countdown page<&sol;a> that surfaced last week&comma; the company has announced SteamOS&period; A Linux-based&comma; free operating system that will allow you to stream Steam to your big&comma; fancy television&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Finally&comma; you don’t have to give up your favorite games&comma; your online friends&comma; and all the Steam features you love just to play on the big screen&comma;&&num;8221&semi; reads the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;livingroom&sol;SteamOS&sol;">SteamOS page<&sol;a>&period; &&num;8220&semi;SteamOS&comma; running on any living room machine&comma; will provide access to the best games and user-generated content available&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>SteamOS is also bringing with it four new features&comma; including In-home Streaming of your Windows&sol;Mac games&semi; access to Music&comma; TV and Movies&semi; Family Sharing and Family Options that can alter what games are seen by whom and provide a better experience for all the Steam users in a household&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The SteamOS pages states that a download for the OS will be coming soon and will always be offered for free&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; we wait for that Wednesday announcement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;