Errata corrige : "This kind of treatment of the end user who spent money"
On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 2:29 PM Mario Marietto <marietto2...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Nvidia Jetson *Nano*. was announced as a development system in > mid-March 2019. Only 4 years have passed. Not 8. I'm an end user,that's how > I count. I may agree that,generally speaking, 4 years are enough,but this > is not always true. The Jetson nano is today a good product in relation to > cost / benefit ratio for a lot of users that don't need to buy the new > Jetson Orin. What I care about (and not only for me) is to enable the > graphic stack with some decent new linux distro. Nvidia supports only > Ubuntu 18,that's the end of life. I've been criticized in the ubuntu > forums for asking for help solving some technical problems with ubuntu 18. The > developers tried hard to convince me that they weren't called to help me > with a distro that went EOL. I insisted that I had to, because nVidia only > supports 18.04. So they told me that they have no relationship with nVidia > and they don't give a damn. This kind of treatment of the end user who has > made money and loves an operating system is unacceptable. I have upgraded > Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 on the Jetson nano. Everything works ok,but not the > graphic stack because I'm not able to install CUDA 11. The nVidia > developers say that only Orin supports it. So,should I spend more money to > buy Orin ? I don't think so. Because I think that CUDA 11 is not supported > on the Nano not 'cause insurmountable technical problems,but because of > the business plans of nvidia. Business plans that aren't compatible with my > finances. With the finances of a lot of end / hobbyist users. > > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 2:13 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Mario, >> >> > I dont hide my interest in the installation of fedora on the Jetson >> nano. I would like to understand what works and what not. Can I have a more >> modern OS than Ubuntu 18.04 ? help me to understand. >> >> The upstream support for nano is OK outside of the graphics stack. >> NVIDIA is now more focused on newer generations of the hardware, being >> Xavier and Orin primarily, They have effectively end of lifed pretty >> much anything prior to that, the TX1 SoC which the nano is based upon >> was released in 2015 so 8 years support isn't too bad IMO compared to >> a lot of other vendors. >> >> They are still upstreaming pieces of the tegra HW drivers for the t210 >> series where it makes sense with their work on the newer HW as a lot >> of the IP blocks are related. >> >> In terms of their userspace based on releases of Ubuntu that's pretty >> out of scope from a Fedora perspective. You may be able to look at the >> newer NVIDIA Jetpack 5.x releases which are designed to run on >> Xavier/Orin as they're based on a 5.10 kernel and a newer L4T >> userspace but I have no idea what version of Ubuntu that is, this is >> the wrong forum for those questions, I'm not sure if they've actively >> torn out < Xavier support there or just defocused it. >> >> Regards, >> Peter >> > > > -- > Mario. > -- Mario.
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