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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 iwoloschin on Saturday June 10 2017, @10:40AM (1 child)

    by iwoloschin (3863) on Saturday June 10 2017, @10:40AM (#523454)

    You're not wrong, but you're focusing on the wrong thing. Who cares about the binary blob on your GPU, it's *probably* not spying on you. You should be very afraid of the binary blob in your CPU that *is* spying on you though.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @11:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 10 2017, @11:20AM (#523461)

    Blobs anywhere are bad, for freedom and for security among many other things.