A year ago, I read that the driver of AMD GPU on the GNU/Linux, Catalyst isn't stable enough. Is it still true or just meme now?
catalyst is dead now. amd go full open source for linux
>>54944914
Wow! that is great! That means, I can use OpenCL with free driver(as a freedom)? I cannot wait for it!
>>54945006
it's not free as freedom
get Nvidia GTX 1080 instead
>>54946375
is nvidia's driver free as freedom? as far as I know about their license, they prohibit many freedoms; also, they don't open their source codes.
> http://www.geforce.com/drivers/license
I think the driver of amd is more respecting user freedom than the driver of nvidia, however it isn't entirely free.
>>54948211
No, it is not.
That's a meme spouting fuck.
>>54944584
Catalyst is now deprecated, you can install AMDGPU but consider it's only for recent cards
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release-Notes.aspx
Otherwise you need to use the open source drivers but don't worry because lately they have made important advances on it:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-12.0-Feature-Overview
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-11.3-12.0-Size-Comparison
So you can install the 16.04 LTS and you can enable the stack of the next ubuntu release or use a ppa to get the newest mesa release:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
>>54949840
That sounds nice and all, but when is the new mesa coming? Phoronix just says "next month" but by then I could upgrade to the 480 and not care so much
>>54950325
it doesn't matter if it's released the next month, it can take much more time to get officially into ubuntu, you can bypass that with a ppa.
>>54946375
Nvidia is WAY fucking worse than AMD is. AMD contributes to free software projects and basically everything they make is FOSS. Nvidia does nothing but release proprietary software, as far as I'm aware they've never contributed anything significant to any FOSS project.
