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We are excited to announce that Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on our distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables us to work on them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.

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.

    • puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      2 hours ago

      As per Arch wiki

      Arch is a pragmatic distribution rather than an ideological one.

      If you’re a FOSS purist, you shouldn’t run Arch ethier way, because providing proprietary software for those who want it is one of the core principles of Arch.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      291·
      10 hours ago

      FOSS purists are too busy malding over systemd, and Steam being proprietary DRM, and games being closed-source.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        9 hours ago

        Steam being proprietary DRM, and games being closed-source.

        Better not tell anyone about DRM-free open source games on Steam then. Wouldn’t wanna burst anyone’s bubble.

        • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          I want to give the perspective that from a technical standpoint, even free games on steam require the steam client to install and while the license to play the game is free steam is licensing your account to own the game. The game doesn’t require steam after that and usually this means the game is available elsewhere, but for the specific case of “free games on steam”, steam is still acting to manage digital rights.

          • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            The game doesn’t require steam after that and usually this means the game is available elsewhere

            Means you can also zip the folder and archive it for later.

            • Aatube@kbin.melroy.orgOP
              1·
              1 hour ago

              They do still have some basic protection. Steam’s default, loose, DRM requires you to launch Steam when you open a game’s executable.

      • kubica@fedia.io
        6·
        10 hours ago

        Leaving the others aside, the last one is quite unsurprising considering the meaning of the acronym…