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

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 Hairyfeet on Saturday June 10 2017, @09:33AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Saturday June 10 2017, @09:33AM (#523443) Journal

    2K3 X64/XP X64 was a damned fine OS (I used it to completely skip Vista at home after seeing what a POS it was on my pretty beefy work PC) and 8.1 once you toss the fugly desktop for a Win 7 desktop (which I see as no different than using a different shell in Linux) is a quite solid OS.

    But I honestly just do not see a point in SteamOS for one simple reason....it will never have a 10th of the Steam catalog! It would be like Netflix offering "Netflix app" that would only play 1 out of every 10 shows that are on Netflix...who would want that? And what is worse if you look at the games SteamOS actually has? The majority has been offered DRM free so why bother with having it on SteamOS when you can just download the DRM free version directly?

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