The Linux kernel development community is emphasizing the need for open source device drivers, in a statement released Monday. While the vast majority of device drivers have open source, there are a ...

In an unprecedented move, Silicon Titan Nvidia has made the GPU kernel drivers for Linux open-source, paving the way for wider adoption of team green’s hardware beyond Windows. Nvidia is undoubtedly ...

For future driver versions, Nvidia prefers its open source kernel driver. The community has problems with this and is working on alternatives. Nvidia's next generation of graphics drivers will install ...

NVIDIA has open sourced the GPU kernel module for Linux. The source code is released under a dual license of GPL license and MIT license, and it is already available for download at the time of ...

Linus Torvalds started the Linux project in 1991, developing a Unix-like kernel inspired by Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Minix. Decades later, Linux has become the cornerstone of ...

Nvidia is publishing its Linux GPU kernel modules on an open source basis with a dual GPL/MIT license now available on GitHub. It’s a good day for users of Linux distros as the hardware giant says the ...

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At the Open Source Summit (OSS) Europe event in Vienna, Austria, on Sept. 16, the always colorful Linus Torvalds took the stage in a fireside chat to detail his views on the latest open source and ...

Three software engineers from CIQ, a Linux company, have found that the kernels shipped by commercial firms have more unpatched flaws than the upstream stable kernel which is maintained by Linux ...