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Reports: NVIDIA Launching a Distro of Its Own (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: There are unconfirmed reports that NVIDIA is working on its own Linux distribution dubbed "NLINUX." This NLINUX is supposedly a Linux platform optimized for gamers and similar to SteamOS, but NVIDIA has yet to confirm these reports and the sole evidence appears to be a circulating screenshot of an NLINUX install screen. Would you be interested in a Linux distribution created by an IHV? Somewhat similar is Intel's own Linux distribution, Clear Linux, that offers high performance Linux on Intel x86_64 hardware.
Thanks for keeping us posted on what you're not interested in.
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If they'll contribute upstream and make whatever they're doing available to people like SteamOS, Debian, and RedHat, I'm absolutely in favor of this!
Hardware vendors should contribute code liberally to the linux kernel source. If all they're doing is a custom debian variant that they can control package versions on to make their drivers look better than they are, then I'll pass.
So we have a custom Intel distro to have better Intel support and a custom Nvidia distro to have a better Nvidia support.
What about if I have a system with Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU and I want to get better support for both?
It's a hoax. I modded it down in Firehose and am pissed it made the front page. That screenshot is from some page on NVIDIA's site, with an edited header. This is a non-story, and it should be blatantly obvious by now they have no interest in Linux interop.
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Seems a pretty silly move to dismiss something without even knowing anything about it.
If it's good enough for the US Senate, then it's good enough for anybody.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!