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Rhythm & Hues Standardizes on NVIDIA Quadro FX Professional Linux Graphics Systems
According to Mark Brown, VP Technology for Rhythm & Hues. "The NVIDIA Linux unified drivers are always right on, supporting the latest, greatest features." The Unified Driver Architecture enable Rhythm & Hues to deploy and quickly upgrade an array of different software applications and hardware configurations – all with a single driver.

Unix Drivers

Linux x86/IA32
Latest Version: 290.10
Latest Legacy GPU version (71.86.xx series): 71.86.15
Latest Legacy GPU version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.20
Latest Legacy GPU version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.31
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Linux x86_64/AMD64/EM64T
Latest Version: 290.10
Latest Legacy GPU Version (71.86.xx series): 71.86.15
Latest Legacy GPU Version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.20
Latest Legacy GPU Version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.31
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Linux IA64
Latest Version: 1.0-5336
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FreeBSD x86
Latest Version: 290.10
Latest Legacy GPU Version (71.86.xx series): 71.86.15
Latest Legacy GPU Version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.20
Latest Legacy GPU Version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.31
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FreeBSD x64
Latest Version: 290.10
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Solaris x64/x86
Latest Version: 290.10
Latest Legacy GPU version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.21
Latest Legacy GPU version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.32
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NVIDIA nForce Drivers

Open source drivers for NVIDIA nForce hardware are included in the standard Linux kernel and leading Linux distributions. This page includes information on open source drivers, and driver disks for older Linux distributions including 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Linux.