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[-] OldPain@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

So what does this mean? He was the main contributer. Is Nouveau the only open source driver Nvidia cards can use on Linux?

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The article answers your question

[-] OldPain@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Read the article and was confused. Good thing there's a comment section to ask questions.

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

I believe so, yes. Other than that there's the official closed driver. Nvidia also "open-sourced" their driver for the RTX 20 series and up, which you could technically run, but I didn't hear much good from it.

[-] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

I've heard that it's not fully open source. Some components of it are still closed source.

[-] 30p87@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

And the parts that are open source are basically just a code dump. No commit history, so no comments explaining things in commits. That's worse than some source code leaks.

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