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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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623 points magicalhippo | 3 comments | 07 Jan 25 04:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.561s | source
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narrator ◴[07 Jan 25 04:49 UTC] No.42619363[source]▶
Nvidia releases a Linux desktop supercomputer that's better price/performance wise than anything Wintel is doing and their whole new software stack will only run on WSL2. They aren't porting to Win32. Wow, it may actually be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
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1. diggan ◴[07 Jan 25 14:18 UTC] No.42622537[source]▶
> their whole new software stack will only run on WSL2. They aren't porting to Win32

Wait, what do you mean exactly? Isn't WSL2 just a VM essentially? Don't you mean it'll run on Linux (which you also can run on WSL2)?

Or will it really only work with WSL2? I was excited as I thought it was just a Linux Workstation, but if WSL2 gets involved/is required somehow, then I need to run the other direction.

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2. awestroke ◴[07 Jan 25 14:50 UTC] No.42622939[source]▶
No, nobody will run windows on this. It's meant to run NVIDIAs own flavor of Ubuntu with a patched kernel
3. hx8 ◴[07 Jan 25 14:50 UTC] No.42622940[source]▶
Yes, WSL2 is essentially a highly integrated VM. I think it's a bit of a joke to call Ubuntu WSL2, because it seems like most Ubuntu installs are either VMs for Windows PCs or on Azure Cloud.