[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“Last night NVIDIA quietly uploaded a new Linux display driver
to their FTP server. This new driver is tagged 171.05, while the
latest public driver has been 169.09. Having already three releases
in the 169.xx series, this is a moderate update to 171.xx, but
according to NVIDIA it’s not for everyone. There is no official
change-log that NVIDIA has published for the 171.05 driver, and the
change-log that ships with the driver hasn’t been updated (whether
it be intentional or not). The only word that has come out of the
NVIDIA camp on this new driver is from Christian Zander and he has
said that this driver is only intended for use with the Tesla S870
GPU Computing Systems. The legacy NVIDIA Linux drivers have also
been updated this week…”