Announcing free software graphics drivers for Intel i965 chipset

These days, it seems like everyone is releasing one thing or another. Now we have Intel releasing i965 graphics drivers for the community.

The Intel Open Source Technology Center graphics team is pleased to announce
the immediate availability of free software drivers for the Intel 965
Express Chipset family graphics controller. These drivers include support
for 2D and 3D graphics features for the newest generation Intel graphics
architecture. The project Web site is http://IntelLinuxGraphics.org.

This release represents the start of a long term effort by Intel to work
with the X.org and Mesa communities to continuously improve and enhance
the drivers. While these drivers represent significant work at both
Tungsten Graphics and Intel, as our first release of this code, they’re
still in need of significant testing, tuning and bug fixing before
they’ll be ready for production use. We’re releasing them now to
demonstrate our ongoing commitment to providing free software drivers
for Intel hardware.

The Intel 965 Express Chipset represents the first product family that
implements fourth generation Intel graphics architecture. Designed to
support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset
family includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment
shaders. By open sourcing the drivers for this new technology, Intel enables
the open source community to experiment, develop, and contribute to the
continuing advancement of open source 3D graphics…. Source: lwn.net