14 DAY TRIAL // SteamOS, a Debian-based distribution developed by Valve to be used in its hybrid PC / console, has just received an important update.
This is just the second update for SteamOS and it's only available for the Beta version. Getting the Beta version is simple enough, but you won't be able to return to the normal branch.
According to the developers, the crashes on Intel graphics have been fixed by merging Keith Packard's dri2-xlib branch, an fbcon kernel panic with Intel graphics has been corrected, and a problem where SteamOS session screenshots taken by the Valve bug reporter would be incorrect has been fixed.
Also, full repaints have been enabled in the GNOME compositor for reliable tear-free rendering, the startup and shutdown hooks from the pulseaudio package have been removed, and the firmware packages have been updated in order to match the Debian Jessie kernel.
As Valve representative Pierre-Loup said in the announcement, “Intel graphics are now supported out of the box; AMD graphics support still being worked on.”