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So far, to play without relinquishing the full power in Linux and taking full advantage of the possibilities of the graphics cards, licensed drivers were needed in order to have advanced features, like full support for 3D.<\/p>\n

NVIDIA<\/strong> has also made a similar movement with his Nouveau<\/strong> project, but the performance of its free driver isn’t as good as users would like it to be. <\/p>\n

More information: Phoronix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMD<\/strong> has released the Open Source<\/strong> driver AMDGPU<\/strong> with support for Radeon R9 285<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Publishing the code of this driver, the company reaches out to Linux distributions’<\/strong> users that have been demanding for a long time the possibility to use free drivers<\/strong>. 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