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cyril-crutchesyesterday at 8:25 PM1 replyview on HN

If I understand your comment correctly, I think he addresses that in the first few paragraphs:

> The DGX Spark runs “DGX OS” but it is in fact just plain old Ubuntu 24.04 with some additions. If you want, you can just install another Linux distribution easily (Fedora works well), although there may be a couple of weird bugs with the Realtek Ethernet driver so the NVIDIA version of the Linux kernel has a couple of patches. Unlike some other ARM devices, the DGX Spark is all ACPI rather than device tree based, so regular Linux builds for arm64 work just fine.


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cogman10yesterday at 10:43 PM

Well that is better than what I gleened.

I thought I'd read that the GPU needed extra kernel patches to properly work. If it's just the Ethernet driver that seems a lot more appealing.

I thought it was device tree as well, so great that it's actual ACPI.