Does this mean that Fedora will include even more proprietary software? WiFi and GPU firmware are one thing but I don’t want the future where Fedora installs steam and candy crush out of the box.
If you’re referring to ROCm, that’s completely open source (AMD’s CUDA competitor). I didn’t notice anything proprietary mentioned in the linked article. Unless I’m missing something, in which case, please do let me know.
K, this is one of those “and now I’m afraid to ask” memes, but comnents like yours have me super confused. What’s all the CUDA about?
I have 2 machines with AMD CPU/GPU hardware. SOC maybe? I really didn’t pay much attention outside of wanting the extra CPU cores for… reasons. They’re both Ryzen, one’s a 5, 'tother a 7. The GPU component has always worked fantastically, but I don’t stress it much as I’m not a gamer. The CPU component has been a dream for my many-threaded needs. And so I’m confused when people chip in about this news complaining about AMD. What, exactly, isn’t working for people, and why don’t I notice it?
Cuda is Nvidia’s GPU programming toolkit. It has become the de facto standard for machine learning and AI work as well as various other workloads in which running the program on the graphics card is faster than doing so on the cpu.
Edit: There is more that it does, I am just giving a simplified explanation.
CUDA is Nvidia’s conputation toolkit and language. it opens up to developers ways to accelerate tasks using the GPU. GPUs are usually really good at doing 2 things better than CPUs, Floating point math, and linear algebra (think a gpu to be like thousands of dumb smaller cores vs a couple of large cores with multiple instructions like the CPU.)
CUDAs main strength is that it makes programming a lot easier for devs, at the cost that its implementation is black box and proprietary. when you have devs use such a proprietary language, the it makes it significantly harder to jump ship if your work relies on it to make a profit.
Hardened_malloc is a security enhanced memory allocator forked from OpenBSD and maintained and used in GrapheneOS. It protects against various memory exploits and works just fine on Linux, I tried Gaming and more.
The Fedora variant “Secureblue” has it preinstalled, they maintain the COPR and handle the preloading also for Flatpak apps.
By default Firefox doesnt accept that though, and gives some memory errors. Fedora Firefox should now work with hardened_malloc, as they applied a build argument to allow it.
I think Desktop linux could adopt more… like a hardened, not tracking, neutral webview so projects could stop using damn Electron. Like actually having a slim and efficient system, without the need to not use Sandboxing.
Not sure if bionic is better than glibc too. Musl probably is, and the problem is binary package repos so you will need to use Alpine to get rid of glibc
Actually it’s not (but it was) a fork of OpenBSD’s allocator, but rewrite of a fork. They wanted too much changes so they decided to rewrite it from scratch.
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