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Okay, a bit more information to throw out there today... Most of the information in this article is based solely on NVIDIA's past history, so accept these thoughts as you wish.
If you measure the time from NVIDIA's first public Linux display driver release (May 17, 2001; 1.0-1251) to their most recent non-legacy driver (May 22, 2006; 1.0-8762), and graph it, you will get something like:
Pardon the version numbers on the bottom getting cut off. This visual pretty much reiterates the long/short release cycle of a few months and then a matter of weeks for a follow-up release. If you base their release cycle on all of the drivers in the past, the average number of days between releases is 70. Coincidently, today is 70 days since the 1.0-8762 driver release. However, if you simply count the time between the major driver releases in the 1.0-7XXX and 1.0-8XXX, there is on average 92 days for the major/longer driver release. With that said, the resulting date based upon NVIDIA's past would push this next driver release to August 22, 2006.
Based upon this NVIDIA release history, as well as a few other tid-bits of information learned from various people in the industry, NVIDIA's inaugural 1.0-9XXX driver release will likely occur within a week of August 23, 2006. This estimated date hasn't been officially confirmed by NVIDIA, so accept this information at your discretion.Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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Some news today is of NVIDIA's Quado Plex VCS. Two links:
The Visual Computing System is compatible with Linux (32-bit and 64-bit), and with that it would be logical to bring the new display drivers. NVIDIA is stating this VCS will begin shipping in September, while The Inquirer is reporting 3 weeks from now.
With this Quadro Plex now, hopefully they will improve the quality of Linux SLI...
I'm still trying to get the August 23rd (+/- a week) Linux driver date confirmed with sources close to NVIDIA. Hopefully some more information will come out during Siggraph.Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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The new 9xxx drivers will add OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.2 supportLast edited by Thunderbird; 07 August 2006, 02:58 PM.
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It also looks like there will be some nvidia-settings improvements -- http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=74657Michael Larabel
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Originally posted by Michael...release will likely occur within a week of August 23, 2006.Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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It looks like a final 1.0-8XXX release may be squeezed in, I am still trying to confirm that.Michael Larabel
https://www.michaellarabel.com/
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