Proprietary video drivers not default in Feisty
Feb 14th, 2007 by Tim
The Techincal Board of Ubuntu announced that Ubuntu Feisty won’t come with proprietary video drivers by default. However, there will be an easy (graphical) way for the user to enable them if he wishes to do so.
This decision has been made since Feisty won’t include either Compiz or Beryl by default and therefore the drivers aren’t necessary.
Practically this means that the reasoning is not ideological but pragmatic and proprietary drivers are probably integrated into future releases.
Read more in the initial announcement and a clarifying blog entry from Mark Shuttleworth.
