SteamOS 2.88 Beta Moves to Linux Kernel 4.1.30 LTS, Updates AMDGPU-PRO Drivers

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Valve has just released today, August 18, 2016, a new Beta update of the SteamOS 2.0 gaming-oriented Linux kernel-based operating system the company uses on its Steam Machines.

SteamOS 2.88 was pushed earlier to the brewmaster_beta channel with an updated kernel from the Linux 4.1 LTS series, version 4.1.30, an updated AMDGPU-PRO graphics driver for AMD Radeon GPUs, the ttf-dejavu-core package to fix a font-related crash in the Steam update user interface, and all the latest security updates from the Debian Stable repos.

The firmware-nonfree package has been updated as well in SteamOS 2.88 Beta to add firmware support for the Killer 1535 wireless module. Among the updated core components, we can mention the cURL data transfer tool, devscripts collection of scripts for Debian developers, and libgd2 GD graphics library.

Other than the above, it looks like the NTP networkin… (read more)

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