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Fedora Core not bending to proprietary drivers

Fedora Core not bending to proprietary drivers

Posted Nov 9, 2006 13:38 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018)
In reply to: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) by davej
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)

That's not what the poster meant: Xorg 7.1 was released back in May and did not appear in FC until months later (September?), because proprietary drivers from ATI and nVidia were not ready for it.


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Fedora Core not bending to proprietary drivers

Posted Nov 9, 2006 19:28 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

But there was no delay: the very next major Fedora release had 7.1.

The only thing Fedora chose not to do was to upgrade the Xorg in the already shipping Fedora release, and I think that this was the right decision.

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