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'Nvidia goes open source' never clicked so fast in my life

We got NVIDIA open source on linux before GTA 6

Nvidia? Open Source? That doesn't go together... UNTIL NOW!

Nvidia going open source along with Valve contributing to NVK, maybe there were some conversations between the two, and we are going to see SteamOS come to Desktop? We can keep our fingers crossed, that would really bring more people to Linux.

1) I'm actually surprised that Pokemon Go uses OpenStreetMap data 2) But I'm more surprised that people would rather change a map than just use a fake GPS signal that places them wherever they want on the earth.

If someone can run a rogue DHCP server on your network, there are a million different things they can do to harm your security. To guard against this, you really need a managed switch that can block DHCP responses except from authorized machines. But most consumer-grade switches don't offer this option.

Nvidia: We are now Open Source! Linus Torvalds: 🖕🖕

Nice, finally Nvidia is taking us seriously

To be completely honest, you are probably one of the only reasons why I still keep track of all this news. I just wanted to say thank you!

Valve contributing to NVK makes me even more confident that Valve will be releasing SteamOS for all devices. Steam Machines are coming! Whooo!

I heard about the Nvidia Foss kernal but it seemed too unlike them. Now you're saying they're discontinuing their proprietary one? This all seem too good to be true

what's the difference between userspace and kernel nvidia drivers tho?

7:39 Isn't that kinda virtual vandalism?

If the firmware is still locked, you are flying blind. This doesn't help. What's the point in an open driver when only you know the registers available in the firmware.

I absolutely love that advertisement with the word "Crypto" is now widely considered a red flag. Lets do the same thing for AI next!

loving these weekly updates ❤️ you seem to always hit the most compelling stories keep up the great work ✨

14:25 If I'm not mistaken, the Steam client itself is not open source indeed, but the Gamescope compositor is. ChimeraOS, for example is using its fork with a few tweaks.

Don't use HoloISO, its not as well maintained to support generic hardware as Bazzite. Bazzite is well maintained for a long while now so supports lots of configurations well,

From what I have read, all the things that make NVIDIA a must-have, namely CUDA and the hardware-accelerated decode, encode, and video filtering functions, are part of the closed-source user-space driver. If you recall, a couple of years ago, some "hacktivist" group managed to steal some of NVIDIA's code and threatened to release it all publicly if NVIDIA didn't open-source its drivers. In response, NVIDIA released the kernel mode driver as open source, and now, during installation, it will default to that one.

I hope that Playtron never gets released, the crypto stuff is very suspicious and it should be treated with maximum suspicion.

You do a great job delivering all the bits to us! Thanks!

Hmmm what about a good ol ClamAV in-depth video or tutorial? Barely any AV for Linux anymore these days, except business ones........

It's like 11:50pm in my place, so I can't think of any other comment. Instead, how are you?

Bad default security options that sometimes couldn't be changed, is why I downgraded from my ISP provided router to just the thing that converts optical signal to digital and just use a router I bought. And I reckon a lot more people asked for a downgrade because the ISP stopped offering it as my friend who is also on the same ISP tried to do it but was rejected.

I think the 4%+ percent of Use of Linux is making NVIDIA finally do things... I hope one day everyone uses Linux... Is free to use and has a very good performance, it only needs support and apps to be more native

Hello, great news! I have one question though, what is the difference between kernel Nvidia drivers and userspace ones? I mean, drivers usually live in the kernel.

Thanks for the new, Nick! :) Interesting source, I wouldn´t call heise an "internet blog", it´s a bit more then this, I think :) Nvidias movement are quiete intresting, too Seems an dangerous bypass for the vpn´s, I wonder that I didn´t read about it - tell now :O Curse and blessing of open source maps :/

Nvidia embracing open source. Never thought I'd see the day. Welcome on board team green. Good to see that there is a future where Nvidia GPUs will work well on Linux without dealing with annoying out of tree drivers. Also great to see Valve bringing their special sauce to NVK. They're a good part of the reason why RADV rocks. Cosmic is getting me really excited. I cannot wait for that to arrive at a finished state (and for the Fedora spin).

Always extremely informative. Thank you

does the VPN thing affect kea-dhcp and freebsd?

What is your daily Linux distro bro and the fedora 40 Wayland how do i make it use Nvidia primary gpu thanks

What kind of controllers do you use for using Steam Deck in the Docking Station?

How do i know if i know that my gpu hss opensource drivers

Thank you Nvidia, this HAS to help Linux grow! Next step would be Capcom dropping Monster Hunter Wilds playable via Proton, hnnnn...

linux & open source news is literally just a compilation of how Linux is getting better and better by the day

Yes perfect start to Sunday morning. Excited about Cosmic progress.

3:30 We will probably see Nvidia proprietary userspace drivers run on Nova instead. There's not much point in running NVK on top of the (out of tree) nvidia-open kernel modules, but it would make a ton of sense for CUDA and friends to run on any Linux distribution without re-configuring the OS.

Thanks for keeping us informed about Linux. I would appreciate even more if you made a tutorial about how to mitigate the VPN attack.

I don’t think Temple OS is affected by this VPN vulnerability.

Could this shift facilitate the development of Mac drivers for cards like the GTX 1660? Currently, you can't have a nice Hackintosh experience with this card because there is no driver for it.

Playing already around with COSMIC on a old IdeaPad. Great and stable experience so far. Will definitely switch when it comes out.

Amazing videos as always :)

Would love to see you do an explainer on video drivers and their place in the display stack. Something in the vein of your recent and excellent Linux kernel versions rundown! Too many acronyms and branding ID names to grok!

They aren't going open source. As of Turing and newer most of nonfree driver is moved into firmware on gpu. The open sourced part is a kernel wrapper layer that talks to the gpu blob and as such isn't a driver. This is old news. The driver, pardon the pun, was for enterprise distros like IBM-Redhat to be able to ship ready to run datacenter OS because both Intel and AMD have entered the datacenter gpu market and both have and had free drivers. The datacenter part of the market is why nvidia did this. The gpu wrapper for that segment was released over a year ago but was not in main kernel for a long time. The consumer wrapper apparently was much harder to implement and was maybe one year late. More bits to get working than the machine learning parts. The original nvidia github post and discussion covered all this but I stopped following it once it became clear we are talking about a wrapper layer not a driver. The real tell was when nvidia hired the main nouveau dev then a huge patchset was released a few weeks ago on mainly the drm layer. Nouveau grows more important because maxwell and pascal support, or any older generation off gpu, will never be in wrapper since they don't have driver firmware blobs. Yes this has side effect of helping turing and newer consumer gpu owners have more seamless experiences but by no stretch of imagination has nvidia open sourced their drivers. Has this been accepted into kernel mainline now? Lots of pressure from corporate linux vendors to get this into kernel so that was never in doubt. The real good news was nvidia hiring the nouveau dev and clearly giving him hardware specs required to make that actual real driver work reliably. Which it never could before because it was all reverse engineered outside of an occasional patch quietly provided by nvidia. Getting open source consumer gpu wrapper releasable was apparently much more difficult than expected. I was expecting it to drop a year ago and for nvidia to switch their non free driver to legacy status. But didn't happen Anyway this is about datacenter gpu market not the maybe 0.5% consumer linux desktop marketshare.

Now they're adding context menus. I switched to Dioxus because of that (ended up making my own html context menu but works).

Thank you.

no sources for older cards, so it still sucks

thats part of the reason I went full amd long time ago, it's not likelly to change in the near future, but finally some progress!

A nvidia W never thought we’d see the day!

Regarding the VPN attack: couldn't you do a traceroute to verify that the traffic actually goes through the VPN and block access/notify the user if it doesn't?

what does this mean for those pips who are not computer sicency savy?

Sorry if this is just a Dunham-Kruger idea, but couldn't a traceroute identify that there is another unexpected gateway between the access point and VPN server( i just have no clue how common it is to have gateways between access points and the VPN server). Sure it is unpractical to do this manually, but could be checked automatically by the VPN service depending on how common it is to have one or more gateways between access points and the internet.

I dont believe it , maybe it was recorded on First of April but sshd was so slow in trasferring xzipped data :D

This is the Summer I move fully to linux. I've used it on servers and the wsl terminal for developing web apps for years. Windows is truly going down a path I can't stand any longer. This better Nvidia compatibility and what valve/proton has done for games was the final thing I needed. Deciding between some Arch distro or Pop OS (which I've used on other machines)

I see nothing but steps in the right direction for the developer of SteamOS. So fun!

11:28 Mesa 24.1? It's not out yet, or am I stupid?

If development of NVK continues at this rate my next GPU might be from nvidia. Last time I bought hardware for my own rig from them was back when gtx7xx was hot stuff.

Dammit, just when PlaytronOS sounded like a good thing, they had to drop crypto BS in there just to make it sound like trash

for NVIDIA: Definitely a step in great direction. I feel like even just kernel part being open source will allow many people to use their GPUs who would feel too uncomfortable otherwise. (rightfully and understandably so. - yet life tho) - Does the user space module require root privileges? If not, this is really nice.

The 2nd paragraph on the 1st slide you showed about the VPN vulnerability states: "...there are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user's VPN runs on Linux or Android." I wonder if VPNs could somehow warn to the user that they were not carrying much traffic, but would need to find a way to avoid false positives for local traffic (e.g. on a LAN).

Doubt that tunnelvision would work with the iptables rules I use when start the VPN.

Okay but if this is based on what we currently have in the open-gpu-kernel-modules, loads of people will still be forced to use the proprietary drivers because those kernel modules only support the 20-series and up GPUs. I am sitting on a 1070 and cannot afford to upgrade, so I am still stuck in proprietary hell

How well do laptops with NVIDIA dGPU work with Linux nowdays? Going with Radeon dGPU is safer bet, but there's too little of them to choose from. Please share your experiences, and with it which series card you have, DE (GNOME/KDE/other) and X11 or Wayland.

only rtx or later, I have a gtx 1050, will it be supported by nvidia open source too?

I'm still not ready to go back to Nvidia yet for my GPU on Linux, but I am happy to see progress being made. I'm looking forward to seeing proper Nvidia support finally happen on Linux. Given that Windows 10 goes EOL next year, this is the golden opportunity to iron things out for supporting Nvidia GPUs ASAP which would make switching to Linux a LOT easier for folks.

Not gonna lie, these updates coming from Nvidia and from the people getting these features implemented have been straight bangers lately. It's still a massive headache to figure out every little bug and stuff but man it's getting there! Can't wait for the 560 drivers to drop!

I've used to play Pikmin Bloom (another Niantic game) a few years ago and I can attest to the fact that they rarely update OSM data. I've seen multiple occurrences where Pikmin Bloom thought there was something in one location, whereas that thing (ex. restaurant) was long closed in that same location and OSM no longer showed that... and I think arguably these amenities in Pikmin Bloom mattered more than Pokemon Go, because it wasn't just increased chances - Pikmin were tagged to the very amenity they were found at and you received special collectible decor for that

I'm excited for NVIDIA open source drivers because that means there's more probability that the support for Wayland and Hyprland would be easier and possibly as good as it is on AMD right now. Also excited to see what Cosmic will look like since I'm currently using their window tiling Pop Shell on GNOME and have never been happier since it's the perfect mix of the utility of tiling window managers without that much of the complexity that comes from them (I also used bspwm before but found it to be too buggy from time to time)

It seems what is convenient for them for the desktop drivers. I think they maintain their advantage and thus proprietary drivers for the NVIDIA GRID drivers, for the desktop it probably does not matter anymore.

To late I've already used proton on Linux Mint.

Also the news maybe somewhat misinterpreted. This may just mean Nvidia will stop developing a full feature driver for Linux, and provide just a minimal open source driver instead. I wouldn't celebrate just yet.

I love that Cosmic and POP are coming from my state!

Proton is great, but what an episode to have them as a sponsor considering VPN is one of their core features Also, on the Niantic using openstreetmap stuff between ingress and pokémon go, there has been a significant uptick in valuable contributions to osm and now we're starting to see the less valuable ones starting to show up. For instance, when ingress really started kicking off, I spent a solid month mapping out every Park in my city on osm to get all the walking paths and the the map and info boards all loaded up correctly

Meanwhile, I'm stuck with a 1070, left behind in the recent open source drive from nvidia. Hardware wise, I see no reason to upgrade for a long time, and it just sucks that I get no FOSS love.

I need to check my calendar if it is April the 1st

If you would have told me 3yrs ago that nvidia would discontinue their proprietary drivers, i wouldve called you crazy tbh, never expected it to happen

QubesOS can protect against this VPN attack. Have a VPN qube configured however you want, and in the firewall VM you can whitelist only the VPN server’s IP address. Even if attackers got total access to that VPN qube, they wouldn’t be able to send any packets other than directly to the VPN server.

That's a good start for nvidia. Once they open fully, I will consider them.

I use Qubes OS mainly with my VPN client in a proxy VM, so I think I'm probably OK, not that I was relying on VPNs that much anyway.

Considering the number of large big data visualization customers using nvidia on linux im surprised its taken this long.

Every time I watch Nick’s video and all the information he provides, it’s like the Joe Rogan experience for Linux

Thanks for the video, but honestly, I don't care if Nvidia goes open source. They've engaged in anti-consumer practices too many times. I'm finished with this company. 😠😠😠

So even temple os is effected?

is it reasonable for me to expect the year of the linux desktop in a couple of years with all this good news?

thank

why didn't you mention AMD open-sourcing their Micro Engine Scheduler way earlier than initially planned?

Wonder a little if NVidia's recent changes are a push to encourage Valve to use them for Steam Deck 2

FYI NVIDIA is has been doing quite some hire of FOSS maintainers of famous packages like NumPy, SciPy, NetworkX, etc. The goal being to support their work and of course give them the tools so they can better support NVIDIA GPUs in these libraries (e.g. through Array API standard support)

4:14 "it's more efficient to update vie the app than command line" That's a sentence I was never expecting to hear

I wouldn't worry about Flutter future. It's currently too big to die, it's a healthy OSS prokext. I still think it is not a bad choice for desktop development for Canonical

Regarding your couch gaming machine that was running HoloISO before, have you considered giving Bazzite a try? It might fit your use case quite nicely ^^

Open source kernel modules from nVidia? Theank you Valve! All we need now is nVidia to support Wayland! Also, it will probably never support my GeForce GTX1050Ti as that's getting on 3 or 4 years old now...

Nvidia? Acknowledging Linux? There’s no way… (Edit: might be something to do with server systems and all that stuff because I heard AMD has a monopoly on that stuff, not sure though.)

Since the update the docked experience has not been that great. Now when I press any button on my PS4 controller it does the action twice

14:00 ooh, audio blooper

Hostile DHCP is nothing new. If the attack is as described, that is exactly why you are supposed to set static local routes for your virtual adapters in an OpenVPN system. And I know of at least one commercial VPN that automatically handled this back in 2014.

12:47 now we just need a Steam Controller 2 and we're set !

Concerning Nvidia moving to FOSS by default: Will that mean that HDMI 2.1 will no longer work? Because for AMD GPU's it does not because the HDMI Forum rejected their proposal to include support in open source drivers (see the discussion on issue 1417 on the gitlap freedesktop forum).

Im an AMD user. i ditched Nvidia a long time ago. But im extremely happy to see Nvidia open source there drivers. Im glad to see the Nvidia users who own Nvidia GPUs be a part of the open source community. Im still a bit pissed about them not going to mesa for their drivers. I really want both Nvidia Intel and AMD to have mesa drivers. It's a step forward, but i would like users to get mesa support on Nvidia. Good first step, Nvidia!