Alert for Nvidia Linux drivers

[midigark]

Found on gamingonlinux:

Liam Dawe @ gamingonlinux.com posted this information Oct 31st 2023.
"NVIDIA today launched four new stable Linux graphics drivers, yes four. 545.29.02 is the bigger one with all the new stuff, but they also launched 535.129.03, 525.147.05 and 470.223.02 due to newly disclosed security issues."

Please, take a moment of your time to see if you are up to date.
For all the details, read the full article @:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/n ... ty-issues/

peace

[Pjotr]

If you need the very latest Nvidia driver, use the semi-official graphics-drivers PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers ... ubuntu/ppa

The latest it contains is apparently the 545.29.06.

[SMG]

If you need the very latest Nvidia driver, use the semi-official graphics-drivers PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers ... ubuntu/ppa

The latest it contains is apparently the 545.29.06.

The 545 driver is a new features branch driver and not the long-term-release stable driver. It is not in the regular repos and people have run into problems with it.

One should not confuse using the very latest driver with being safe from that alert. That is not what is described in the alert. Newer versions of the 525 and 535 drivers with the fixes have been released and I presume those will make their way into the repos if they are not there already. One does not need to use a PPA to get newer iterations of the same driver version they are using.

[Hoser Rob]

Yep, that 'alert' could make it look much safer than it is.

The thing is that in the world of Linux "stable release" doesn't mean what you might think it does. All it means is that they froze the features, it doesn't mean that it's ready to be used day to day. This even applies to the kernel, see https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html