Valve’s SteamOS is built atop Arch Linux and now the company is further helping the upstream Linux distribution by collaborating with resources to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave.
Arch Linux developer Levente Polyak shared on the project’s mailing list that Arch Linux and Valve are now in a “direct collaboration” and that Valve is providing financial backing to help with build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave for the distribution.
Polyak wrote on the Arch-dev-public mailing list:
“This opportunity allows us to address some of the biggest outstanding challenges we have been facing for a while. The collaboration will speed-up the progress that would otherwise take much longer for us to achieve, and will ultimately unblock us from finally pursuing some of our planned endeavors. We are incredibly grateful for Valve to make this possible and for their explicit commitment to help and support Arch Linux.
These projects will follow our usual development and consensus-building workflows. [RFCs] will be created for any wide-ranging changes. Discussions on this mailing list as well as issue, milestone and epic planning in our GitLab will provide transparency and insight into the work. We believe this collaboration will greatly benefit Arch Linux, and are looking forward to share further development on this mailing list as work progresses.”
Kudos to Valve for all their continued contributions in the open-source and Linux world.