New -experimental drivers for nvidia/fglrx

[Nicholas Skaggs]

The technical board has decided to make some tweaks to how the 
nvidia/fglrx drivers work inside ubuntu in response to better supporting 
newer hardware.

An -experimental package for each released Nvidia/fglrx beta driver will 
be made availible. Users can install these drivers independently, with a 
fallback by default to the stable driver. They will all have 
-experimental in the package name and will be selectable as part of 
software updater's 'additional drivers'.

The packages will come with a warning about stability upon installation, 
and the typical SRU requirements will be waived. There will not be a 
one-week wait, and while people will respond to bugs found in these 
drivers, regressions and bugs can easily occur given the closed binary 
nature of the packages as well as the "beta" label given to them by the 
company releasing the driver.

What this will allow for is support for newer games and technology as it 
becomes available, even when running a stable release. I wanted to let 
everyone know to be on the lookout in about 2 weeks for these new 
drivers to land into quantal and precise. Additionally, the package 
names will be cleaned up next cycle to better represent the packages and 
prevent confusion.

Thanks,

Nicholas