For the past few years there’s been a tradition where AMD supplies Canonical with an early snapshot of their very latest Catalyst driver prior to the next Ubuntu release. This hasn’t been done to ensure Ubuntu ships with any magical graphics driver features (in some cases though it can provide a glimpse of what’s to come), but rather is provided so that there is actually a Catalyst driver that works on the given Ubuntu Linux release. There’s an unfortunate tradition where by the time the next Ubuntu release rolls out that the latest publicly available Catalyst driver does not support either the latest Linux kernel and/or the X.Org Server used by that release. The Catalyst snapshot provides that belated support…
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