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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Nvidia was “forced” to integrate Linux into its ecosystem
100% bullcrap.
Nvidia’s servers for data processing have always run Linux. And you know what those servers run? It’s not Windows, that’s for sure. So why would they write multiple versions of a driver for the same hardware interface? Their servers use the same drivers that you would use for gaming on a Linux desktop system.
In fact, no version of Windows is supported on their DGX servers, and AFAIK you can’t even install Windows on it (even if you managed, it wouldn’t be usable).
Long story short, a vendor we were working with (about 6 or 7 years ago now), was working on their Linux version of their SDK. We wanted to do some preliminary testing on Nvidia’s new T4s that at this point were only available via Nvidia’s testing datacenter (which we had access to).
During a call with some of the Nvidia engineers I had to ask the awkward question of “any chance there’s a Windows server we can test on?”. I knew it was a cringe question and I died a little during the 10 second silence until one of the Nvidia guys finally replied with “no one uses Windows for this stuff”. And he said it slowly like the reply to such a question needed to go slow to be understood, because who else would ask that question unless you’re slow in the head?
Nvidia has always been hostile to the Linux community or negligent to say the least
People say “hostile”, but I think a better word is arrogant. They wanted to force the industry to use their own implementations they owned or pioneered like egl-stream instead of open standards. But AMD and Intel have proven that open source graphics drivers not only work, but benefit from being open so that the community can scratch their own itches and fix issues faster.
Don’t get too excited – if this goes like the last few NVidia hardware, it will:
- cost too much
- run a non-mainline kernel
- NVidia will discontinue support for it after 3 months
Go talk to all the Jetson owners out there and see how happy they are with NVidia Linux boxes. I’ll believe it when I see it (and when it is supported for longer than a quarter)
I hope to see some nice Risc-V PCs soon
Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn’t.
And why is that?
Project DIGITS features the new NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, offering a petaflop of AI computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning and running large AI models.
With the Grace Blackwell architecture, enterprises and researchers can prototype, fine-tune and test models on local Project DIGITS systems running Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS, and then deploy them seamlessly on NVIDIA DGX Cloud™, accelerated cloud instances or data center infrastructure.
Oh, because it’s not a fucking consumer product. It’s for enterprises that need a cheap supercomputer
Haven’t they been making things like the Jetson AGX for years? I guess this is an announcement of the next generation.
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
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).
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.
Where’s the PC? Is it the brick on the desk? 🤣
I fucking wish you could filter out words like “Linux” on Lemmy so I don’t have to hear it anymore. I avoid Linux out of spite to all the Linux bros
Stay mad
Not mad, mildly annoyed. Does the billionaire who owns Linux allow you to get off his dick so you can defend them online?
Is that a joke or do you genuinely not know what linux is? I get being annoyed by it if computers aren’t your thing though.
That’s kind of the funniest way to not know what it is, though.
