Comment on SteamOS for ARM Handhelds v1.2.1 (unofficial port of Steam Frame's OS)

Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They take the binary SteamOS image and add a different kernel and some other auxiliary stuff to port Valve’s image to new devices.

  That’s broadly similar to what Linux Mint does to Ubuntu or Batture does to Fedora. Sometimes this is referred as a remix instead of a fork.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thank you, I get that now. I was just originally confused that you called it unofficial, when he writes it’s official. IDK why he writes it like that?

    github.com/hashtagbasit/SteamOS-ARM-Handhelds

    This is Valve’s official SteamOS for ARM

    That confused me until I read further.
    But you are 100% right that this is an unofficial adaptation.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not the developer but my guess is that they want to distinguish this from Armada which is something like Bazzite but using Arch Linux where everything is recompiled.

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