Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Did Nvidia really switch to open source?

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Did Nvidia really switch to open source?

    Like many others, I have studied the Nvidia driver kernel modules, with much headache and furrowed brow. Is this Nvidia open source article real and does anyone know if these terminal commands from Nvidia actually work for Kubuntu, Ubuntu? Like most, I highly distrust Nvidia because there seems to be some sort of disconnect between them and Linux systems. Would it actually install a open source nvidia driver? Is CUDA a good or bad thing for Kubuntu 22.04?

    apt: Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions
    Run the following command:

    $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-open

    To upgrade using the cuda metapackage on Ubuntu 20.04, first switch to open kernel modules:

    $ sudo apt-get install -V nvidia-kernel-source-open
    $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-open

    dnf: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Kylin, Amazon Linux, or Rocky Linux
    Run the following command:


    $ sudo dnf module install nvidia-driver:open-dkms​
    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…
    Last edited by Snowhog; Sep 12, 2024, 01:33 PM. Reason: Placed NP tags around $ sudo dnf module install nvidia-driver:open-dkms to prevent the smilie displayed by :o
Working...
X