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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) by frojack on Friday June 09 2017, @11:45PM (1 child)

    by frojack (1554) on Friday June 09 2017, @11:45PM (#523331) Journal

    Wow, exactly my list, even though I never liked XP.
    Since then nothing.... 8, 8.1, 10, 10-whatever, all of them so maddening!!

    7 is probably the best of all of them. Not the lightest.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday June 10 2017, @04:05AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday June 10 2017, @04:05AM (#523376) Journal

    MS realized they made something too good with 7, meaning they went "Shitshitshitshit we made another XP, they're still gonna be using this by the time we have Moon colonies." So, with the typical too-big-for-its-britches corporate blend of arrogance, tone-deafness, greed, and hubris, they invented The Next Big Thing and pushed it harder than any other turd they've ever strained out before, all to get a piece of all the flash-in-the-pan fads, control users, externalize costs (of course onto said users...), and force profits.

    If you ask me this is perilously close to rent-seeking behavior, to say nothing of the utterly creepy baked-in telemetry. I work 2 jobs, and the first one is at a local computer repair/build place. We're all Linux heads, even the man at the front desk, but our clients are all Windows and all we can do for them is Shut Up 10.

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