NVIDIA Unexpectedly Announces Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

Heade to hell this evening? If so you may want to pack some warmer clothes: NVIDIA is finally embracing open source. In a shock post, NVIDIA has announced the immediate release of open source GPU kernel modules for a crop of its current hardware. This move, they say, is just the first step in a broader open source aimed at “improving the experience of using NVIDIA GPUs in Linux”. And about time too, right? Canonical, backers of Ubuntu, plan to ‘package the open kernel modules’ for use in the recent Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release in short order with other Linux […]

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