Over the course of the past few months we have seen several NVIDIA Linux drivers that have all been marked as beta with the last official release appearing in April. Today though NVIDIA has released the 177.80 Linux driver, which is an official update and christens the changes made with the 177.67, 177.68, 170.70, 177.76, and 177.78 beta drivers.

Among the changes are RENDER extension improvements, finally officially supporting the GeForce GTX series, text rendering fixes, and there are 25 official changes in total.

The products to now be officially supported on Linux include the GeForce GTX 260, GTX 280, 9800GTX+, 900GT, 9700M GTS, 9500GT, 8100P, nForce 780a SLI, nForce 750a SLI, Quadro FX 770M, Quadro NVS 160M, and Quadro NVS 150M. The GeForce GTX series was introduced back in June but it has taken nearly four months for this official support to arrive.

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