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AMD Developers officially announces the release of new AMD Catalyst 14.9 Linux driver for new changes and minor bug fixes. After a long period of time, the AMD community has updated to newer version. Well this release provides better functionality than other open source drivers. Like earlier, thi time also AMD doesn't provide any release notes for this release.

According to one of the announcement at Softpedia, AMD Catalyst 14.9 Linux driver comes with support for latest AMD Radeon R9 285 but also compatible with R9 290, R9 270, R7 260 series and HD 5000 series. Currently, this catalyst 14.9 driver is supported by various Linux distros including Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 7.0 and 6.5, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3, OpenSUSE 13.1 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

The new AMD Catalyst 14.9 Linux driver is dependent on various dependencies such as Xorg/Xserver 7.4 and above, Linux Kernel 2.6 and above, glic 2.2 or 2.3 and POSIX Shared Memory which is required for 3D applications. Apart from this, this driver also includes fixes for Witcher 2, Motion Builder, ETQW and few OpenGL programs. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in software world ?

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