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According to Wendell from Level1Techs, the now-launched Jetson Thor uses a Linux Kernel built by Nvidia, on Ubuntu 20.04 [0]. So I assume getting upgrades will have the same feel as those Chinese SBC's like from Radxa or cheap Android devices.

I wonder if this also applies to this DGX Spark. I hope not.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnKUUcCKcs&t=669s

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In the case of Jetson, NVidia also have a fairly generic BSP which you can use to customize almost any distribution, and the Jetson-customized Ubuntu is standard enough that you can upgrade it using the normal Ubuntu upgrade path without major issue.

For most of the Tegra boards there’s also upstream support. Overall the situation with NVidia BSP is about 10000x better than weird Chinese stuff. In the case of Tegra/Jetson, there’s even detailed first-party documentation about reconstructing the BSP components from source:

https://docs.nvidia.com/jetson/archives/l4t-archived/l4t-327...

I’d assume the decent software support will carry over to DGX.

Oooof that would be an instant dealbreaker for me... Better get a mac pro with asahi linux. That at least has great linux support.

Marketing material says NVIDIA DGX™ OS, which at version 7 would be an Ubuntu 24.04: https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgx-os-7-user-guide/introduction...

or how the Jetson Nano was on Ubuntu 18.04 when it was released in 2019 and never got a single major OS upgrade.

That platform was great for a few months...

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