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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

F.Y.I.

Regards,

Phill.

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From: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 18 September 2012 16:39
Subject: New -experimental drivers for nvidia/fglrx
To: Ubuntu QA <ubuntu-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


The technical board has decided to make some tweaks to how the nvidia/fglrx
drivers work inside ubuntu in response to better supporting newer hardware.

An -experimental package for each released Nvidia/fglrx beta driver will be
made availible. Users can install these drivers independently, with a
fallback by default to the stable driver. They will all have -experimental
in the package name and will be selectable as part of software updater's
'additional drivers'.

The packages will come with a warning about stability upon installation,
and the typical SRU requirements will be waived. There will not be a
one-week wait, and while people will respond to bugs found in these
drivers, regressions and bugs can easily occur given the closed binary
nature of the packages as well as the "beta" label given to them by the
company releasing the driver.

What this will allow for is support for newer games and technology as it
becomes available, even when running a stable release. I wanted to let
everyone know to be on the lookout in about 2 weeks for these new drivers
to land into quantal and precise. Additionally, the package names will be
cleaned up next cycle to better represent the packages and prevent
confusion.

Thanks,

Nicholas

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