NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog
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With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs…
  • gpstarman@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    Does this mean upcoming distros can have the drivers inbuilt? NVIDIA Cards working out of the box? I’m Out of the Loop.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      This has never been an issue. Nothing stops any distro from installing the DKMS drivers at install time. You also have the nouveau driver that can be installed by default if you don’t want to ask users to agree to Nvidia’s license for proprietary driver use.

        • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.socialEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Ubuntu is also stale old software, and shouldn’t be a distro anyone wanting a functional box running new hardware/software should use. Valve realized this and moved SteamOS to Arch so they would have a current stack not constantly 6+ months behind upstream, needing to backport everything to an outdated stack.