Creative still hasn’t launched a pair of drivers for its X-Fi sound card series for the Linux platform and now it seems that it will take even longer before the Linux users will be able to use Creative’s popular sound circuit. Creative has namely updated its Open Source site with information that reveals that it will release its first official beta driver at the end of the third quarter, 2007, best case scenario. The reason that the eternally delayed Linux drivers have been even further delayed is Windows Vista. Creative has had to spend a lot more time and resources developing drivers for Vista than first anticipated, which has forced it to postpone the Linux development.
This will hardly make Linux users any more positive of Microsoft or its Windows products, while at the same time it’s hard to blame Creative as it has to prioritize its largest audience.
Alas, Linux will have to wait until Q4 for X-Fi drivers, “only” two years after the sound card was launched.
