Can’t find bluefin-dx-nvidia iso image on projectbluefin website. I mean old nvidia kernel module (closed source). Is it obsolete?

We’re not going to onboard people to a dead end just to tell them that we’re dropping support 6 months later, better to tell you up front before installation.

you can get it by editing the download url here: https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-dx-nvidia-stable.iso As to its support status however I have no idea.

Yes we’ll only be making open ISOs from now on, but will continue to make the closed images for a while to support people with existing installations.

What does it mean ? will we still be able to play the latest games with the open ISOs or should the gamers rebase to Bazzite instead ? what changes for the user between the closed and open source Nvidia driver ?

[image] NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA... With the R515 driver, NVIDIA released a set of Linux GPU kernel modules in May 2022 as open source with dual GPL and MIT licensing. The initial release targeted datacenter compute GPUs… …

Thank you, so in the end it will not make any difference for the user, it looks like everything will work the same, isn’t it ?

Yeah, unless you’re stuck on old hardware, but hopefully we can keep the builds going for as long as we can for those folks.

I do think if you have a card which doesn’t support the open drivers you can just install from a regular ISO and rebase to -nvidia

Is there an easy way, like a ujust command to switch over to the closed nvidia driver? I’m on a Dell Precision 5530, with either the NVIDIA Quadro P1000 or NVIDIA Quadro P2000, so I guess it’s older than the open supports. So after booting up, the fans go off non-stop full blast at the highest lev…

You can just rebase to the closed image as they are still built sudo bootc switch --enforce-container-sigpolicy ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-nvidia:<your stream>

Bluefin iso for nvidia is obsolete?

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inffy April 25, 2025, 4:00pm 9

Should work fine, it should use the nouvea or whatever its called driver and then you can rebase to the -nvidia image

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