A new update has been released for SteamOS Alchemist Beta

Jan 23, 2014 12:33 GMT  ·  By

SteamOS, a Debian-based distribution developed by Valve to be used in its hybrid PC / console, has received another important update.

The previous update for SteamOS brought the much needed support for AMD graphic cards, and now another series of important fixes and changes has been implemented.

According to the changelog, the Debian-installer and thee debian-cd source packages have been added to the repo, the mouse cursor is no longer disappearing in Wargame games by stubbing out all pointer grabs from the modeswitch inhibitor hook, and hotplugging USB sound devices by re-enabling Pulseaudio dynamic module loading now works correctly.

Also, the PolicyKit configuration has been changed in order to give members of the sudo group administrative rights, Debian GRUB updates have been merged, and the kernel updates are no longer breaking Wi-Fi on Brix Pro boxes by moving the experimental rtl8821ae driver into a monolithic staging driver.

Check the official announcement for more details about this release. You can download SteamOS right now from Softpedia. Keep in mind that, even if this is a stable release, some bugs might still be present.