[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for
this link. ]
“The Intel Linux driver stack can be attributed with
many firsts, but continually pushing this driver while putting out
quarterly timed releases has led to some pains. Earlier this year
in fact the driver stack was rather buggy — especially in Ubuntu
9.04 — that impaired many users with stability issues, performance
problems, and other headaches. Most of the regressions from
overhauling the Linux driver stack have been resolved, but where is
the driver stack at now? The Intel stack in Ubuntu 9.10 is
performing rather well, but where it’s more important is its status
within Fedora as more of the bleeding-edge graphics packages are
pulled into this release that often don’t make it into other
distributions until months later when they roll out their next
releases. To see where the Intel Linux graphics are at in Fedora
12, we ran the same set of benchmarks in the Fedora 10, 11, and 12
releases with an Intel G43 IGP.”