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The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns(www.phoronix.com)

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OldPain@lemmy.world
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So what does this mean? He was the main contributer. Is Nouveau the only open source driver Nvidia cards can use on Linux?

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I believe so, yes. Other than that there’s the official closed driver. Nvidia also “open-sourced” their driver for the RTX 20 series and up, which you could technically run, but I didn’t hear much good from it.

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WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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I’ve heard that it’s not fully open source. Some components of it are still closed source.

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30p87@feddit.de
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And the parts that are open source are basically just a code dump. No commit history, so no comments explaining things in commits. That’s worse than some source code leaks.

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Psythik@lemm.ee
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Times like these make me really miss Omega Drivers. :(

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30p87@feddit.de
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Why go for third party drivers if you can go for AMD?

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