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Re: [Cooker] Naming of new NVIDIA legacy driver series, 173.14.xx

Anssi Hannula

2008-06-18

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Anssi Hannula wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> NVIDIA has dropped support for GeForce FX in their last beta proprietary
> driver. GeForce FX will continue to be supported by 173.14.xx legacy
> release series.
>
> Currently we have:
> nvidia-current
> nvidia96xx
> nvidia71xx
>
> There are couple of alternative names for the new driver branch:
> nvidia173
> nvidia173xx
> nvidia173.14
>
> I think I'm going to package it as "nvidia173".
> It'll be somewhat inconsistent with our pre-existing 96xx and 71xx,
> though, but the "xx" are there for historical reasons. I don't think it
> would be worth it to rename the old ones to nvidia96 and nvidia71, though.
>
> Any comments?

Going with nvidia173, then.

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Anssi Hannula
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