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For this article we have taken NVIDIA's latest display driver for Linux and Solaris (v100.14.11) and ran it on both operating systems. Specifically, we had used Fedora 7 with the Linux 2.6.21 kernel and on the Solaris side had used both Solaris Express Developer Edition 5/07 and Solaris Express Community Edition Build 66 "Nevada". Both of these Solaris builds were released earlier in the month and represent the latest and greatest from the Solaris/OpenSolaris camp. Fedora 7 was released towards the end of May and represents Red Hat's latest community offering.

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