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Ubuntu Reverts Video Driver Stance

Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 13 February 2007 at 01:00 AM EST. Add A Comment

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn will not ship with the proprietary display drivers for NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards. This decision was made by the Ubuntu Technical Board, but the status quo of offering the drivers through Ubuntu repositories will remain. Official PowerPC support for Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn has also been dropped. More information is available here.

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