[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“With NVIDIA squeezing its developers abilities moments before
the new year and holidays, through the 1.0-8178 display drivers,
only one can take a guess when the next release will occur for
Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. In 2005, NVIDIA, as well as ATI, had
made some impressive improvements across the board with each
preceding driver release; however, the green has never been much
into delivering scheduled Linux driver releases. If you will recall
from last year, the release intervals ranged from merely twenty to
118 days. On the contrary ATI has routinely delivered monthly, and
even in some rare instances bi-monthly, display drivers for a great
amount of time with its Windows CATALYST software. In recent
months, joining in on the monthly ritual has also been their Linux
display drivers, and this month is no different. While generally
the second week of the month ATI strikes its users with updated
drivers, January’s release is taking place in the middle of the
month. Hitting the web just moments ago is CATALYST v6.1, which
features various game fixes and graphics enhancements, while on the
penguin side of things is ATI v8.21.7…”