Comment by ux266478
2 hours ago
> SteamOS is open source, so it's not really walled.
SteamOS is technically licensed under GPL, but Valve has yet to release the source code for 3.0 (4 years ago...)
The last activity in the public kernel repository was 9 years ago.
Where do you see that SteamOS Holo is GPL3? A package is not required to be GPL, and most of SteamOS is a customized arch installation, there's no guarantee that SteamOS itself is GPL. And which repo are you talking about, I don't see it on their gitlab for SteamOS Holo?
That's a good semantic catch. Allow me to clarify: the kernel is GPL2, by virtue of being Linux. I just checked on my Steamdeck and (supposedly) it's running 6.11 with modifications. What exactly are they? I don't know beyond the modified version string, because the source isn't actually published anywhere. You may find building SteamOS from source is quite difficult when you can't build the kernel itself and you don't even know what's been done to it.
> I don't see it on their gitlab for SteamOS Holo?
The poor repository is so abandoned they don't even seem to have migrated it to their gitlab.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamos_kernel