AMD Catalyst 14.9 Linux Driver Is Out, Release Disappoints, as Usual

Posted by thesilviu on Oct 1, 2014 2:03 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The AMD developers have announced that a new Catalyst 14.9 Linux driver is now out and that it brings support for a couple of new operating systems and a few bug fixes.

New AMD Linux drivers don't arrive as often as the community wants or needs them and the company doesn't have the best track record in the open source world. As it stands right now, there are two kinds of drivers available to Linux users, one that's open source and another one that's proprietary. Catalyst 14.9 is made by AMD and provides better functionality than the open source one, but it doesn't get updated too often.

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