Nvidia Drivers Are Becoming Open Source

In this video I discuss the upcoming Nvidia R560 drivers that will have open source kernel modules, and the new opensource nova driver being developed by Red Hat in rust, we're entering an era of Nvidia being great on Linux, and users with heavy graphics workloads not having to rely on Windows with rampant bugs like the recent outages caused by crowd strike.

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[lazar]

We got open source Nvidia drivers before GTA 6

[oriyadid]

This is fantastic, honestly didn't expect Nvidia to ever get this far

[乂]

This is huge! Nvidia going open-source is a game changer for Linux. Props to Red Hat for working on Nova too. The future looks bright!

[kocokan]

Their enterprise customers now are linux servers for
LLMs

[connivingkhajiit]

its happening, hell is freezing over...

[sdkdb]

The amount of disappointment after learning that the drivers are limited to only a very few cards is immeasurable.

[rch]

Hot take drivers should be legally mandated to be open sourced to enable fairer competition between operating systems.

[hyoenmadan]

3:58 About the Crowdstrike fiasco...
- Yes, this time isn't MS fault, but Crowdstrike's.
- Linux on enterprise is also patched/injected with Crowdstrike Falcon kernel code, so don't feel so secure about those linux web/infrastructure servers.

[itshadoww]

"Not every GPU is compatible" such a typical nvidia move...

[nixosgoddess]

I feel like it's worth mentioning that version 555 of the nvidia drivers have the explicit sync protocol implemented. This makes nvidia gpus so much nicer to use on wayland compositors that have explicit sync support as it eliminates flickering. XWayland has also recently merged explicit sync support.

When I found out about this, I upgraded my drivers and I immediately got so many of my problems with wayland fixed. This is huge. I am so glad I can finally have a good experience with using wayland.

[haxalicious]

Correction about Minecraft. Java Edition is effectively open-source and decompilable. That's why modding is so easy.

[AeonPrime]

I usually agree with your statements but your take on the crowdstrike situation was just plain wrong. CrowdStrike Falcon is EP installed by the user/admins with system privileges, a kernel driver included. If Crowdstrike then pushes a faulty update, how exactly is that related to Microsoft? This could have happened to any Linux distro/application that live patches something regularly.

[LukasSmith]

George Hotz is gonna go wild with this

[Redyf]

Microsoft outage and Mental Outlaw video about Nvidia drivers becoming open source in the same day, we are so back!

[KingKrouch]

Worth noting that NVK is releasing for open source NVIDIA drivers on Linux, and it's apparently included with Mesa. It apparently needs some work to become compliant with later Vulkan standards, alongside some optimizations, but it's shaping up to be interesting.

[CatMeowMeow]

As far as I understand, Mojang provides official meetings for decompiling Minecraft's code. So not open source, but also the core code isn't really protected. You can decompile to the same class/function/variable names as in the source

[ryderman]

Big props for Red Hat, they add a lot to linux drivers and open source virtualization😊

[Tritibellum]

that's huge! linux is truly becoming close to an OS for all gamers

[olnnn]

So the older cards are still screwed on linux once nvidia drops support for them since other than 1st gen maxwell can't be re-clocked without signed firmware and are thus stucked in the lowest power state if you use the nouveau driver... (it's bad enough with the ones they've already dropped support from that have to be manually be re-clocked and use sub-part foss drivers or you have to use the obsolete drivers that don't support wayland and regularly breaks with newer kernels)

[fabillo]

I mean because of how comparatively easily Java bytecode is to decompile and Mojang actually releasing the official obfuscation mappings for Minecraft, I would pretty much call the game source-available for all intents and purposes. Your coding experience with some of the Minecraft modding SDKs is pretty much identical to that of the developers themselves, except for minor stuff like code comments and such.