It has been 80 days since the last NVIDIA Linux display driver was released. The
NVIDIA 100.14.11 display driver was released back on June 21 and now we are in the middle of September... This is a very long time without a new driver release considering that there are a number of serious bugs and regressions in this release. Last year the
average time between NVIDIA releases was calculated and the number was 70 days. This year we have had even more driver releases than in the past and we've went basically the summer without a new binary release from NVIDIA. We were told that there would be a new NVIDIA binary release this past Thursday, but obviously that didn't happen. Perhaps this week? A new NVIDIA display driver is imminent and will hold
X.Org 7.3 support and is expected to correct a number of the GeForce 8 problems. With this extended time between releases, NVIDIA could have a surprise or two in the driver too. We'd also expect that new NVIDIA legacy releases will come about for X.Org 7.3 support and fixing some of the bugs on the older NVIDIA hardware. This week is already very busy with the X Developer Summit going on where AMD will be releasing their
new ATI R500/600 open-source driver as well as the specifications and it's very likely that the new NVIDIA 100.xx.xx series driver will meet the world in the coming days. What do you hope NVIDIA's new driver adds or fixes? Tell us in our
NVIDIA forum.
