GPU acceleration in Fedora Security Lab?

[Roger Karlsson]

Hi!

I know Fedora is not the ideal distribution for anyone needing a proprietary graphics
driver, but I would like your input on how stable/unstable a system running the Nvidia
driver from RPM Fusion (with akmods) actually is?

<http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia>

Listening to the FAQ from the recent Fedora conference

<https://youtu.be/taK2LwEH2RQ?t=32m54s>

it sounds outright inadvisable. Being a Fedora user I would very much prefer running my
forensics tools on Fedora rather than on a Debian based distribution.

// Roger

[Corey Sheldon]

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On 03/21/2016 11:13 AM, Roger Karlsson wrote:
>  Hi!
>
>  I know Fedora is not the ideal distribution for anyone needing a 
proprietary
graphics driver, but I would like your input on how
stable/unstable a system running the Nvidia driver from RPM Fusion (with
akmods) actually is?
>  http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia
>
>  Listening to the FAQ from the recent Fedora conference
>
>  https://youtu.be/taK2LwEH2RQ?t=32m54s
>
>  it sounds outright inadvisable. Being a Fedora user I would very much 
prefer
running my forensics tools on Fedora rather than on a Debian
based distribution.
>  // Roger
>
>
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Roger,


Personally my best  advice would be  either don't use  Nvidia drivers OR
use the ones provided by  rpmfusion as while they are  not  legal
technically they ARE still supported formally.


Regards,
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[Hubert Kario]

On Monday 21 March 2016 16:13:20 Roger Karlsson wrote:
>  Hi!
>  
>  I know Fedora is not the ideal distribution for anyone needing a
>  proprietary graphics driver, but I would like your input on how
>  stable/unstable a system running the Nvidia driver from RPM Fusion
>  (with akmods) actually is?
>  
>  <http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia>
>
>  Listening to the FAQ from the recent Fedora conference
>  
>  <https://youtu.be/taK2LwEH2RQ?t=32m54s>
>  
>  it sounds outright inadvisable. 
it is also bad idea from security/trustworthiness perspective

>  Being a Fedora user I would very much
>  prefer running my forensics tools on Fedora rather than on a Debian
>  based distribution. 
you can make it work, but it's not something anybody will be jumping 
around to make work above all else

I can only say that the OSS Radeon drivers are completely hassle free 
from my experience.

-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic