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Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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OK, maybe you wouldn't pay three grand for a Project DIGITS PC. But what about a $1,000 Blackwell PC from Acer, Asus, or Lenovo?

Besides, why not use native Linux as the primary operating system on this new chip family? Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn't. It's that simple.

Nowadays, Linux runs well with Nvidia chips. Recent benchmarks show that open-source Linux graphic drivers work with Nvidia GPUs as well as its proprietary drivers.

Even Linus Torvalds thinks Nvidia has gotten its open-source and Linux act together. In August 2023, Torvalds said, "Nvidia got much more involved in the kernel. Nvidia went from being on my list of companies who are not good to my list of companies who are doing really good work."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haven't they been making things like the Jetson AGX for years? I guess this is an announcement of the next generation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's a pile of shit compared to any other sbc. It's difficult to develop or run anything because it has an arm chip

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But arm is the most deployed microprocessor in the world? I'd much rather write arm assembly than Intel or PowerPC. For higher level languages, arm has good compiler support. Can you explain why you don't like arm? I'm genuinely curious because it is probably my favorite development environment (I mostly write embedded system software).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

It is an horrible ecosystem that could very well end the era of the personnal computer. I type this on an arm device which I cannot ever be root on. Arm has been the biggest rollback in user freedom since windows 10.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Linux packages don't work on it unless they're custom compiled, OS is supplied by Nvidia unless you make or compile your own os, so support for these will be abandoned when the next one comes out. Minimal performance for the price in exchange for lower power consumption. Really only useful for image recognition for OEMs for automated factory quality inspection, robotics, etc. where Internet access is limited.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

The AGX that I use has Ubuntu 22.04 lts. I have been able to update it with apt. For us, it has been a good environment for CUDA. We run a rust application that uses c++ cuda image processing on the back end. Sorry people are downvoting you.