I'd like to think more and more companies are looking into Linux as a viable platform. Ubuntu is making a significant push for this and Valve is on their side as of the moment. If Ubuntu is pushing for a Gaming Platform, I think it makes sense to make an edition that uses a rolling release system. This ensures that there is only 1 configuration that publishers and developers aim for, and all the rest is just upgrading versions instead of major overhauls that has been happening with every major Linux distro release. This also makes it easier for maintainers because all of this is just open source software, so they'll figure out just what a game needs to work for their system. Lastly, this helps gamers who just want to bump up the packages they need to get something to work. Doing the distribution upgrades takes a lot of time to do and is very risky as well.
If a manufacturer targets a single Linux platform, everyone in the open source community can pick up the slack and figure out how to make it work elsewhere. This is the open source community at its best and brightest. Adding a rolling release on top of it, in my opinion, just makes the entire process easier for everyone, gamers and developers alike.
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