Mesa 17.2.4 Graphics Stack Lands for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10 Gamers

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Canonical’s Timo Aaltonen reports on the availability of the Mesa 17.2.4 open-source graphics drivers stack on the X-SWAT updates PPA for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 17.10 systems.

Ubuntu systems have always lagged behind the development of the Mesa 3D Graphics Library, the Linux graphics stack containing open-source drivers for Intel, AMD Radeon, and Nvidia GPUs, but they usually catch up with it through a specially crafted PPA (Personal Package Archive) repository that can be easily installed by users.

Ubuntu engineer Timo Aaltonen is the one who packages the latest Mesa release for the most recent Ubuntu release, as well as the current long-term support (LTS) series, and he recently updates the X-SWAT PPA to the Mesa 17.2.4 release for … (read more)

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