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A comment on Talos II.

Re:Talos II by qubex on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:54AM (#14957280)
Despite the high cost (when compared to 'comparable' x86_64 hardware) I am very excited by this.

However I'm concerned by desktop Linux support and graphics driver support. It would be really miserable to get this kind of machine and then have a lacklustre desktop experience (though I'd be using it as a high-horsepower workstation, it would need to be able to dump computations onto the GPU and use ordinary free productivity software on the side).

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Re:Talos II by CrystalGamma on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:54PM (#14960518)
Given that they're selling systems with AMD cards in them, I would imagine that AMDGPU/RadeonSI at least would very well.
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Re:Talos II by JohnZi on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:24PM (#14963507)
They had a video of playing Unreal Tournament (the new one) on a Talos 1 with a AMD card.

As long as a card with Open Source driver support gets used it should work mostly fine. Back then they need a 4line patch to play ut4.

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