On Wed, 2026-05-13 at 19:15 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi All, > > For those of you who like me do not closely follow > the Fedora Discussions forum. I've just become aware > there are plans to have Fedora: > > 1. Ship a LTS kernel, there is no idea who is going to actually > maintain this next to the regular kernels but we must do this > because: > > 2. All of a sudden it is ok to ship out of tree modules > starting with NVIDIA's OpenRM module. Throwing out decades > of consensus on our no our of tree modules policy, so that: > > 3. We can start shipping CUDA as part of some Fedora spins, > there is some handwaving how we won't actually be distributing > these ISOs our selves but all of a sudden Fedora the FOSS > distro is going to start promoting the proprietary CUDA with > all its known vendor-lockin problems. > > You can read more about this here: > > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-ai-developer-desktop-objective/184941
I don't think this is quite as terrible as you're worried it is. For other folks reading this, please also read Gordon's clarifications at https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-ai-developer-desktop-objective/184941/149 . -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
