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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

Graphics Drivers

Linux IA32
Latest Version: 190.53
Latest Legacy GPU version (71.86.xx series): 71.86.11
Latest Legacy GPU version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.14
Latest Legacy GPU version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.22
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Linux IA64
Latest Version: 1.0-5336
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Linux AMD64/EM64T
Latest Version: 190.53
Latest Legacy GPU Version (71.86.xx series): 71.86.11
Latest Legacy GPU Version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.14
Latest Legacy GPU Version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.22
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FreeBSD x86
Latest Version: 190.53
Latest Legacy GPU Version (71.86.xx series): 71.86.11
Latest Legacy GPU Version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.14
Latest Legacy GPU Version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.22
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Solaris x64/x86
Latest Version: 190.53
Latest Legacy GPU version (96.43.xx series): 96.43.14
Latest Legacy GPU version (173.14.xx series): 173.14.22
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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.

PODCAST

Andy Ritger and Christian Zander of NVIDIA speak with Will Backman of bsdtalk (http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/) about the NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics driver. In the interview Backman, Zander and Ritger discuss the motivations for NVIDIA supporting FreeBSD, the technical issues to resolve in order to improve NVIDIA's FreeBSD Graphics Driver support (also discussed here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html), the configurability and features exposed by the driver, and licensing and NVIDIA's open source efforts.