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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: 0s | source
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Abishek_Muthian ◴[07 Jan 25 14:59 UTC] No.42623030[source]▶
I'm looking at my Jetson Nano in the corner which is fulfilling its post-retirement role as a paper weight because Nvidia abandoned it in 4 years.

Nvidia Jetson Nano, A SBC for "AI" debuted with already aging custom Ubuntu 18.04 and when 18.04 went EOL, Nvidia abandoned it completely without any further updates to its proprietary jet-pack or drivers and without them all of Machine Learning stack like CUDA, Pytorch etc. became useless.

I'll never buy a SBC from Nvidia unless all the SW support is up-streamed to Linux kernel.

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lolinder ◴[07 Jan 25 15:36 UTC] No.42623475[source]▶
This is a very important point.

In general, Nvidia's relationship with Linux has been... complicated. On the one hand, at least they offer drivers for it. On the other, I have found few more reliable ways to irreparably break a Linux installation than trying to install or upgrade those drivers. They don't seem to prioritize it as a first class citizen, more just tolerate it the bare minimum required to claim it works.

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stabbles ◴[07 Jan 25 15:39 UTC] No.42623519[source]▶
Now that the majority of their revenue is from data centers instead of Windows gaming PCs, you'd think their relationship with Linux should improve or already has.
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1. robhlt ◴[07 Jan 25 19:18 UTC] No.42626187[source]▶
They have been making real improvements the last few years. Most of their proprietary driver code is in firmware now, and the kernel driver is open-source[1] (the userland-side is still closed though).

They've also significantly improved support for wayland and stopped trying to force eglstreams on the community. Wayland+nvidia works quite well now, especially after they added explicit sync support.

1. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/

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2. jimmySixDOF ◴[07 Jan 25 21:10 UTC] No.42627514[source]▶
>complicated

... as in remember the time a ransomware hacker outfit demanded they release the drivers or else .....

https://www.webpronews.com/open-source-drivers-or-else-nvidi...

3. Vilian ◴[08 Jan 25 19:48 UTC] No.42637766[source]▶
Because red hat announced that next RHEl is going tone Wayland only, that why they fixed all that you said, they don't care about users, only servers