The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns
The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns
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So what does this mean? He was the main contributer. Is Nouveau the only open source driver Nvidia cards can use on Linux?
The article answers your question
Read the article and was confused. Good thing there's a comment section to ask questions.
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.
I've heard that it's not fully open source. Some components of it are still closed source.
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.