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

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623 points magicalhippo | 4 comments | 07 Jan 25 04:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.04s | 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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vladslav ◴[07 Jan 25 15:37 UTC] No.42623488[source]▶
I've had a similar experience, my Xavier NX stopped working after the last update and now it's just collecting dust. To be honest, I've found the Nvidia SBC to be more of a hassle than it's worth.
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busterarm ◴[07 Jan 25 16:34 UTC] No.42624279[source]▶
Xavier AGX owner here to report the same.
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justin66 ◴[07 Jan 25 16:52 UTC] No.42624519[source]▶
My Jetson TX2 developer kit didn't stop working, but it's on a very out of date Linux distribution.

Maybe if Nvidia makes it to four trillion in market cap they'll have enough spare change to keep these older boards properly supported, or at least upstream all the needed support.

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aleden ◴[07 Jan 25 18:50 UTC] No.42625845[source]▶
Are you aware that mainline linux runs on these Jetson devices? It's a bit of annoying work, but you can be running ArchLinuxARM.

https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/1580

Edit: It's been a while since I did this, but I had to manually build the kernel, overwrite a dtb file maybe (and Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/l4t_initrd.img) and run something like this (for xavier)

  sudo ./flash.sh -N 128.30.84.100:/srv/arch -K /home/aeden/out/Image -d /home/aeden/out/tegra194-p2972-0000.dtb jetson-xavier eth0
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justin66 ◴[07 Jan 25 19:39 UTC] No.42626451[source]▶
How close does any of that get a person to having Ubuntu 24.04 running on their board?

(I guess we can put aside the issue of Nvidia's closed source graphics drivers for the moment)

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1. nightski ◴[07 Jan 25 21:13 UTC] No.42627560[source]▶
Isn't the Jetson line more of an embedded line and not a end-user desktop? Why would you run Ubuntu?
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2. verall ◴[07 Jan 25 21:37 UTC] No.42627875[source]▶
Jetson are embedded devices that run ubuntu. Ubuntu is the OS it ships with.
3. justin66 ◴[07 Jan 25 22:17 UTC] No.42628323[source]▶
The Jetson TX2 developer kit makes a very nice developer machine - an ARM64 machine with good graphics acceleration, CUDA, etc.

In any case, Ubuntu is what it comes with.

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4. aleden ◴[08 Jan 25 03:29 UTC] No.42630589[source]▶
If you spent enough time and energy on it.. I'm fairly confident you could get the newest Ubuntu running. You'd have to build your own kernel, manually generate the initramfs, figure out how to and then flash it. You'd probably run into stupid little problems like the partition table the flash script makes doesn't allocate enough space for the kernel you've built.. I'm sure there would be hiccups, at the very least, but everything's out there to do it.