Nouveau Becomes Default Driver in Fedora 11

[Rahul Sundaram]

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http://osnews.com/story/21033/Nouveau_Becomes_Default_Driver_in_Fedora_11

"Among the many new features for Fedora 11, a newly added one is Nouveau 
becoming the default driver for Nvidia cards in Rawhide. Nouveau is an 
effort to create a completely free and open source 3D driver for Nvidia 
cards. Fedora 7 originally included this driver installed but not 
enabled by default. Red Hat recently hired Ben Skeggs, one of the 
primary Nouveau developers and Nouveau driver has been accepted by the 
Fedora Engineering team to be the default driver for Nvidia cards with 
the legacy nv driver as a fallback option. Nouvaeu already supports more 
chipsets, RANR 1.1 support, Accelerated XRENDER, Textured Video support 
for many cards that are not covered by the nv driver which has been 
hampered by a lot of obfuscated code as well. Phoronix has other details."

Rahul