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Jorengarenar
on Dec 30, 2022
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Write a Wayland Compositor [video]
Wait, weren't Nvidia drivers finally open-sourced not so long ago?
delusional
on Dec 30, 2022
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They open-sourced a kernel intermediary driver that talks to a proprietary binary blob running in userspace. The driver itself is still proprietary.
monocasa
on Dec 30, 2022
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And a massive multiple MB proprietary blob running on the GPU. It seems they ported most of their privileged driver to running on the GPU itself.
hsbauauvhabzb
on Dec 31, 2022
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Has this made any real world impacts yet? Has it been implemented in mainline? Will this mean fedora can be used without leveraging contrib repos?
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