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RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - mattpenn - 09-10-2020
(09-08-2020, 07:00 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: A good example of an exception is Nvidia. Windows is the only operating system that Nvidia wants to work with their hardware.
Not sure what this is in reference to exactly. Nvidia supply Linux drivers for their cards. There's probably more (really) high-end GPUs in Linux boxes than Windows these days (super computers, machine learning, crypto mining, etc).
RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - KC9UDX - 09-10-2020
(09-10-2020, 05:43 AM)mattpenn Wrote:Something must have changed then. It sure didn't yoostaby this way.(09-08-2020, 07:00 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: A good example of an exception is Nvidia. Windows is the only operating system that Nvidia wants to work with their hardware.
Not sure what this is in reference to exactly. Nvidia supply Linux drivers for their cards. There's probably more (really) high-end GPUs in Linux boxes than Windows these days (super computers, machine learning, crypto mining, etc).
RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - mattpenn - 09-10-2020
(09-10-2020, 05:50 AM)KC9UDX Wrote:(09-10-2020, 05:43 AM)mattpenn Wrote:Something must have changed then. It sure didn't yoostaby this way.(09-08-2020, 07:00 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: A good example of an exception is Nvidia. Windows is the only operating system that Nvidia wants to work with their hardware.
Not sure what this is in reference to exactly. Nvidia supply Linux drivers for their cards. There's probably more (really) high-end GPUs in Linux boxes than Windows these days (super computers, machine learning, crypto mining, etc).
It certainly has! These days Nvidia and their hardware are driving forward computational science as well as worrying about frame rates for Windows gamers. That stuff is almost exclusively done on Linux. I work in a university and I'd hazard a guess that we have > 1000 NVidia cards across the campus in clusters, servers and desktops all running various flavours of Linux
RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - KC9UDX - 09-10-2020
I've no idea what happened to my reply. I only asked "Are you sure they're not using the unsupported (and not fully functional) Nouveau drivers?"
RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - tophneal - 09-10-2020
(09-10-2020, 09:59 AM)KC9UDX Wrote: I've no idea what happened to my reply. I only asked "Are you sure they're not using the unsupported (and not fully functional) Nouveau drivers?"
for some reason your actual reply didnt make ii into the body. this happens occasionally and often gets removed b/c it just looks like big block quote and nothing else
https://i.imgur.com/pMQy9rL.png
On a side note, more related to the thread, it's probably almost time we start a PineTab Software Releases wiki page.
RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - tophneal - 09-10-2020
(09-10-2020, 01:44 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: It just happened again. It seems to be because I deleted the quoted quotes.
When you're removing the quote levels, are you removing them in the rich or plain text editor?
RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - KC9UDX - 09-10-2020
It seems to happen any time I delete a quoted quote.
RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - KC9UDX - 09-10-2020
(09-10-2020, 01:45 PM)tophneal Wrote:Rich. I didn't know plain text was an option.(09-10-2020, 01:44 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: It just happened again. It seems to be because I deleted the quoted quotes.
When you're removing the quote levels, are you removing them in the rich or plain text editor?
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RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - Lex-2008 - 09-11-2020
(09-10-2020, 06:54 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: I didn't know plain text was an option.
Try switching to plain text mode (last button on the toolbar), at least before posting.
Rich text looks buggy - when I edit quoted text (remove nested quotes, etc) - then quoted text becomes bold, like nickname. Switching to plain text and back fixes it - hence, plain text is better
RE: how do I know which linux OS I can install on a pinetab - mattpenn - 09-11-2020
(09-10-2020, 09:59 AM)KC9UDX Wrote: I've no idea what happened to my reply. I only asked "Are you sure they're not using the unsupported (and not fully functional) Nouveau drivers?"
Regardless of the display driver (some will use NVidia, some will use Nouveau) they are all using this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA