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Just curious, any guess why it doesn't come with the latest Ubuntu and Python pre-installed?
by FrojoS 6y ago
Just curious, any guess why it doesn't come with the latest Ubuntu and Python pre-installed?
- chunkyks 6y agoNVidia don't see the point. There are a few forum threads where NV respond "why do you even want that" or "you can get ubuntu 20.xx from a third party".
- FrojoS 6y agoThen why pre-install anything? I'm not in the field, but I would think that a lot of people would want to run there Python CV code on it. Or is it, becaue they want you to use CUDA?
- chunkyks 6y agoBecause if you don't have an offering that'll make it do something interesting OOB, it's unlikely anyone would buy it. [bootstrapping from true scratch is typically a nightmare for hobbyists] I shouldn't be quite so negative; NV did put in a lot of effort building up the development kit. ARM Builds of CUDA, drivers, etc. Repos with packages for the job. Tutorials for common tasks, etc. They're really within a hair's breadth of an excellent OOB experience, but fell at the last hurdle.
- colejohnson66 6y agoThe raspberry pi didn’t/doesn’t ship with anything and people bought/buy that by the millions
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoIt’s very easy to install any version of Python using pyenv. I would be careful not to change the system Python in 16.04 because it will probably mess up apt.
- hajile 6y agoAs soon as you start needing C libraries, you start getting minor issues here and there. Numpy modules in particular seem prone to issues -- even on a bog-standard x86 desktop. It's got to be much worse on the very niche Nvidia SoC.
- verall 6y ago18.04 was the last Ubuntu LTS before very recently, and python3.6 is system python3 for Ubuntu 18.04. These are both Ubuntu examples that Nvidia just left as the default. When 20.04 comes python will upgrade with it.