AMD reveals AMDGPU Composition Stack, a fork of Wayland's Weston compositor for advancing the Linux desktop - eviltoast
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    13 days ago

    Holy shit, I love seeing team red balls deep into linux. One thing is making your driver open source which is freaking awesome, but a compositor? That’s cool as fuck.

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      12 days ago

      On the other hand, their software to flash GPU VBIOS is proprietary, requires downloading from some third-party websites, and they are quick to DMCA the shit of anyone hosting it on GitHub. They’re definitely not saints (neither is any capitalist corporation to be fair)