Quote Originally Posted by Darakian View Post
I wonder what they built off of. Debian? Arch? Gentoo? :p
SteamOS is based on Debian.

Also :

This week at XDC2013 NVIDIA made one of the biggest surprise announcements... NVIDIA will begin publishing NDA-free GPU programming documentation. They already have released some documentation and more is on the way as they seek to assist the Nouveau graphics driver developers in writing a full open-source 3D Linux graphics driver for GeForce GPUs.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...tem&px=MTQ2NzY