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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Released: NVIDIA 555.42.02 Linux Beta Brings Wayland Explicit Sync, GSP Firmware (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait nvidia is releasing native drivers for Linux now,? Does RTX work?

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They've been doing that for a long time. And yes raytracing works.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They even used to be the best drivers, a long time ago when nobody cared about the graphics stack. Had ATI/AMD? You got the FGLRX proprietary driver and it was really bad.

12 years ago it was probably one of the least broken GPU drivers available. You actually got most of your GPUs capabilities.

Now with Intel and AMD going open-source, those are now the best drivers and NVIDIA is lagging behind and not keeping up with advancements in the Linux graphics stack. Hopefully the open driver and NVK catches up and brings everyone a good open-source NVIDIA experience so we can stop relying on the proprietary driver.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

They'll never catch up if Nvidia doesn't open their driver. Which they don't show any interest in doing.

[–] Bulletdust@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

RTX has worked under Linux both natively and via and Wine/Proton/DXVK/VKD3D for quite some time now.