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SteamOS Update That Drops AMDGPU-PRO in Favour of Mesa Has Left Beta

posted by n1 on Friday June 09 2017, @08:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the update-to-freedom dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The big SteamOS beta update that Valve shipped last month has now officially been released into the stable updates branch.

This is a very large update. It includes a new 4.11 Linux kernel, and updated drivers for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics hardware. This update also switches SteamOS from the proprietary AMDGPU-PRO driver to the open source mesa driver. Debian 8.8 and security updates are also included.

Source: GamingOnLinux

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @10:53PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 09 2017, @10:53PM (#523314)

    You can tell they're complete baka [google.com] because they even gave the strongest Windows, Windows ⑨, a pass and went straight on to 10!

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 09 2017, @11:24PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday June 09 2017, @11:24PM (#523322)

    Followed by an obstinate refusal to take it to 11.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 10 2017, @04:07AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday June 10 2017, @04:07AM (#523379) Journal

    Windows 8.1, that is to say Windows NT 6.3, *is* effectively Windows 9. Technically Windows 10 is NT 6.4, but they popped the version string up to 10.x.y because fuck you.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @09:30AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @09:30AM (#523442)

      "Effectively" doesn't cut it. GP was talking about the actual Windows ⑨: Strongest Edition [google.com]. Alas, Microsoft thought that Windows ⑨ would be too strong [touhouwiki.net].

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 10 2017, @07:08PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday June 10 2017, @07:08PM (#523555) Journal

        It was cut because there's a massive and easily-exploitable vulnerability; just stand *right in front* of the kernel when the CPU utilization is above 50% and all messages will be dropped.

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