Intel has released drivers for the company’s G965 express family of chipsets under a tri-open source license to the OSS community. The open source drivers have been released under the X.org MIT License, the Mesa MIT License and the GPL v2 license. The drivers have full support for 2D and 3D features of Intel’s GMA X3000 and GMA 3000 integrated graphics cores.

This is the first release of the 965 chipset code and the release still needs a significant amount of testing and fine tuning before production use. However this is a major step forward for Intel in the open source community.

This news article was written on August 12, 2006, quoting Dailytech.