Wait, why is the MIT license not a FOSS license? It's actually very permissive in terms of what you can do with the code. Basically, the only requirement is that you give credit. You don't even need to use the same license for derivatives. Edit: The timecode is 8:08

Even the KZfaq algorithm can't hold this video back, thanks for watching everyone! Lets celebrate open source kernel modules!!!

The most popular graphics card on Steam is the GTX 1060, which isn't supported in these open source drivers. Hopefully they eventually make all their drivers open source.

Nvidia finally rubs their two brain cells together and realizes that open-sourcing their drivers *literally* gets them free programmers. It's not like they were making their money on software anyways... (At least for GFX, I know they do a bunch of other compute shit.)

Turns out they moved a lot of stuff into the firmware, which is not open source, and just use the open source module to call it all from the kernel. Basically, all this move means is that Nouveau is gonna gain access to things like temps and clock speed settings and the official code will still be technically proprietary. I'll be sticking with AMD.

Important things to mention: A) this will take years to fully open source and have a solid community surrounding it B) this is only the kernel side of the drivers, in other words just barely enough to publish something, but it won't run anything by itself C) the Mesa people who make the generic 2D/3D drivers based on OpenGL and Vulkan and integrate both Intel and AMD may eventually take that open source code opening from Nvidia and actually modernise Nouveau to something just as good. Now the kicker about that, is that Mesa, especially Vulkan Mesa, regularly kicks the ass of the AMD standard driver. How, why? No clue, the rumor through the grapevine is that the AMD drivers are meant to impress on benchmarks but actually perform rather weakly for games. No idea if it'll be the same for Nvidia's case, but if it is, in a few years, you will actually be able to say: "If you want real FPS, come to Linux".

finally someone who actually talks about the effect this will have on nouveau. I don't use nvidia or ever plan to but I still hope that nouveau becomes good one day

Not only is the firmware still proprietary, it feels like they just moved the proprietary bits from the driver into the firmware.

CUDA and tensor cores remain outside the openness. Those are the most important ones for AI and other scientific areas (FEM, CFD dynamics, etc.) which happen to be more widely used under Linux.

So basically some company with a lot of server and influence (likely ML related if you look at the supported cards, maybe Google) got really annoyed about including a proprietary blob and running that.

From what I understand, some devs at Red Hat, over many years, played a significant role in convincing Nvidia to do this.

Linus Torvalds in 2013: "NVIDIA, Fuck You!" Linux Community now: "Fuck Yeah, NVIDIA!"

Glad that this finally happened, but...I kinda wished they actually made it open source instead of...whatever this is.

I have some feeling that the roadmap looks like: phase 1: the Kernel interface (frontend) (Current part that is open source) phase 2: user land part of the drivers (xorg/wayland) phase 3: porting Vulcan/OpenGL/CUDA/OptiX from firmware blob to kernel/userland But the best if we get an next generation open API as a replacement for the good old VGA/SVGA api that include Vulcan and OpenGL/DirectX over Vulcan

I'm thinking that maybe Nvidia has seen the Steamdeck take off, and realized that Linux might have some market share as a desktop OS in the future. So their getting the ball rolling on open-sourcing their drivers, so that they'll be ready by the time Linux does achieve some appreciable percentage of the market. I seriously doubt they're complying to the hacker's demands, but it might have put the thought on Nvidia's mind. Just like market share, there's also a term in advertising called mind share.

more like opensourced bindings to their actual drivers that were moved to a RISCV cpu inside your gpu

We‘ve been waiting for this for years. finally!

Not 100% open-source. I'll just stick with AMD and their products which actually fully support their customer base.

This actually may make me give gaming on Linux another try as my first attempts were met with frustration due to driver issues with NVIDIA

Linux gaming finna be actually viable now

Now if only Microsoft would open source DirectX.

Awesome commentary. I credit the Steamdeck with compelling this development. Nvidia wishes to open the door to candidacy for inclusion in a future build. The Open Source community will hereby help put them in closer striking distance to making that potential possibility a reality. Nonetheless this will benefit gamers overall first and foremost. Linux gaming is the future.

This is my first summer with Linux in general, I put in hundreds of hours to learn and be efficient while also learning Offensive Security and hundreds of hours to go. Honestly the best decision I've ever made in my life, thank you Linux community, shoutout to debian devs, RIP Ian Murdock, shoutout to the ParrotOS crew.

They've moved a lot of functions that used to exist in the kernel blob to the firmware on the graphics card itself. They're probably not open sourcing anything particularly interesting, but it's good to get those binary blobs out of the kernel.

Forcefully or voluntarily

I wonder if Nvidia is doing this due to the success of the Steam Deck.

Although if it is only geared to the newer hardware, the source code may provide a lot of insight to reverse engineering the older drivers, which may help with the open source versions (even if only indirectly via clean room specifications).

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Nvidia only released their code for RTX graphics cards in the alpha stage. It’s better to wait nouveau team to catch up.

Unfortunally, CUDA still a Nvidia thing, I hope the scenario change a lot to make Radeon this good to IA / data science

Dude i love your content, it's so informative.

I've been waiting for you to make a video on this.

What you said is very true for the consumer side of the gpu space, but seeing them develop and continue to support and advance rapids, a library for accelerating python with cuda on every single version of their GPUs beyond pascal, and working with microsoft to develop drivers that work out-of-the-box with wsl2 is fantastic. Because AMD doesn't really have a serious enterprise/HPC division, Nvidia has been the only choice for a long time on the small-scale enterprise side of the market if you didn't want to spend the equivalent of the entire GDP of Somalia on an IBM Linux box; even if you did want to, you lose native x86 compatibility. Seeing them start to encourage open-source development, even if limited to some of their modules now, is really promising. I really hope that they keep going down this path, because it's most definitely means that we're going to have better, more compatible products in the end.

Even though not everything is availible yet, it's still a god move and hopefully more will come when nvidia sees how people reacted to this.

outstanding review on the Nvidia news. Please keep covering Nvidia and Linux - need more "pressure " on both to support "the user".

Totally didn't expect you to pop my favorite game there

So they haven't so much Open Sourced their drivers as started new driver tree which is Open Source. If they had actually Open Sourced their current driver, this stuff would be as well tested and performant as the current proprietary driver. A positive move for the Linux community none the less.

"I will not have any closed source software on my system" Well until you can coreboot your Threadripper and get the last pieces of the x86 puzzle, you are sort of forced to do it that way though. So entirely free you aren't.

Even as someone who doesn't use Linux and doesn't plan to, this is great news. So happy for you guys

Great video bro!

Mental Outlaw, I really like that you don't use the easiest software but the most powerful. For instance Gentoo. But why do you prefer X? As a developer myself I always try to push people into the Linux/Wayland direction. As more I read about this topic as more I would suggest using wayland. I would really like to see a video of you discussing this.

Nvidia's AI systems are nothing to sneeze at either. I suspect if the trend continues the ability to make gans and other neural networks will increase greatly

Such good work you do!

Thanks for explaining what this means! Btw I have 0 screen tearing with GTX1660Ti in Fedora+KDE Plasma X11 when using its desktop's Compositor (built in vsync) and no tearing within games

Now we just gotta wait for propper Wayland support and compatability with AMD gpu drivers so people can utilize the strengths of AMD and Nvidia gpus at the same time on Linux on the most based display protocol.

Of course all of this new stuff happens after I buy a 6900XT for the SOLE purpose of it being fully functional with Linux. Someone please tell me if I made a good decision or not...

Even though I won't be able to upgrade my pc and flash linux onto that future system in a good amount of time, I'm still glad that I finally have more options when it comes to graphics cards and the like

Hopefully this will lead to a better situation with mesa on nvidia. Even though amd has open source e.g. vulkan drivers, nobody uses them since radv has the benefits of getting to reference amdvlk for manufacturer specific code and having the contributers from mesa who really care working on it. Open source kernel drivers should lead to better community drivers for user space software.

Still sticking with AMD. NVidia has had some pretty dirty business practices, nearly on par with Intel, that makes me loath to ever support that company. But this is good news for those that currently run those cards and want to game on Linux.

omg finally. this has taken them an eternityy.

watching and sending love from my linux mint

Boosting this in the algorithm, people need to see this

Noita is awesome, it would be nice to at least see their engine on other games

7:00 "AMD has been beating both NVIDIA and Intel in the space of enterprise hardware" But Intel (dark grey) is above both AMD (light grey) and NVIDIA (light blue) in the graph.

I love the Noita shout out! Its been my favourite game for a few years now but hardly anyone I speak to has heard of it.

Simply fantastic news.

0:21 Can someone link me the source for that clip? I really need it.

Alright, who did the TempleOS joke? 🤣🤣

I Thought of you the second I saw this news :)

As a full AMD user, I'm glad to see my nvidia user brothers approaching a cozier world with more peace of mind. :)

I'm gonna stick with AMD cards still. Just because.

I would have switched to AMD, if AMD's Blender rendering performance were not so miserable compared to that of Nvidia in the similar price range.

Holy shit, this is such insanely great news. This made my day.

Incredible! Finally! This is a monumental event.

So... If ps5 has pcie for the nvme, does that mean we can repurpose the pci lanes once FreeBSD has Nvidia drivers to expand gpu vram on ps5 or use rtx instead of built in Nvidia gpu? Might be super handy for gameplay recording and streaming to have dedicated GPUs doing the encoding while you play. "nn-ooou-v-oh" not "noyvu" 😝

I want to thank bigswag420 for contributing to the github repository

Thank you for mentioning free desktop, I have older hardware that I like to play test my noob skills, I never knew that existed and it works well for me

No way! Wow! I know Linux community has been asking for this forever. Nice 👍

I am a newbie and i want to switch to linux REALLY BAD. I like to do programming in my free time and really like the idea of learning a new operating system (which is open source) like linux (i was thinking of pop os or mint). If they could automatically distribute with a Nvidia driver it would be awesome, really looking forward to it (if you could suggest a linux distro or desktop for beginners that would be awesome)

YEEEEEESSS FINALLY!! I thought this would come to light through a leak, but doing it by the company itself is much healthier. I've been waiting for this moment for almost a whole decade and you don't know how special it feels.

I love this channel ❤

This news made my day!!

0:19 wait, there's a waifu for.. arch linux? is there anything else left on this planet that doesn't have a representative waifu?

And it only took them several decades to realize they make their money on hardware, not software.

I never thought the day would come. This is amazing news.

This is probably the greatest news since Proton.

I would pay top dollar to get access to Mental's waifu content folder for videos...

Finally, Linux gaming gets more attention.

My favorite linux news channel for midnight

Liked this video but truly liking Nvidia. Sending them my energy...keep on truckin lil tink tink

You guys completely forgot that someone hacked Nvidia? They wanted them to open source drivers or else they would release it themselves since they downloaded the whole database of Nvidia.

Sadly it only supports 2xxx or above, Still gonna help nouveau

We taking those Ws man!

no wayyyyy, this is amazing!

The fact that they're even trying open-sourcing at all is a huge win.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

FINALLY. I've finally decided que change from Windows 10 to Manjaro last december, and so far the Nvidia drivers have been the only real source of pain to deal with, everything else is great. Hoping that when the Open-Souce drivers (apart for Nouveau) finally get released you would make a video on them about how to change from the propietary ones.

I wanted to write something here, but you already said it in the video.

No one realizes that Nvidia only did this because their internal source was gonna be leaked otherwise

This isn't an NVIDIA commitment to open source; it is a slap in the face. Rather than open sourcing the drivers, they are patching the kernel to fit the needs of their proprietary driver. Title is super misleading

good, I switched to linux recently(LMDE) and thing are looking good for the future of linux.

Pretty cool to see you play noita, I love that game

Does this mean that the hackers won?

this video didn't age well

in case this sounds like greek to you? funny everytime i hear that phrase. love your vids man.

Ah noita! What a man of culture you are!

Did they have a choice? Didn't they just get hacked a few weeks ago, and all their driver source code stolen and distributed all over the internet? If a company gets their private source code stolen, then the best way to try and mitigate that is to just declare it is now "FOSS"

Good timing. I'll be switching Garuda linux and have a 1080.

The fact that the userland stuff is proprietary still means this probably isn't using DRM and so can't be mainlined, all in all it's a step in the right direction but a much smaller step than people seem to think.

Wow! Huge great news!