Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton, Mesa, and More

Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by amelius on Saturday December 17, 2022 @12:15PM (#34029780)

Right now I'm stuck with nVidia's Jetson line of products which is vendor-locked to Ubuntu. The problem is that while you can extend them with a large SSD drive, these products have a really small disk used for /. I could run another OS inside a Docker container, all to avoid this limitation in snap, but of course things will not become prettier.

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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by Y_Y on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:40PM (#34030761)

You've been able to run the root on (nvme) SSD for a while now with Dusty's scripts, and more recently with the official installer.

I have great sympathy though, I am also using Ubuntu on Jetson and resent snap, especially since the new releases are 20.04 which have it more tightly integrated.

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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by lgeek on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:07PM (#34031035)

You can change the root parameter in extlinux.conf to point to whatever block storage you want it to

Or reconfigure U-Boot to load extlinux.conf (and the kernel image, initrd, etc) entirely from other type of media. IIRC NVMe, USB and external SDs are all supported

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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by amelius on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:50PM (#34031470)

Thanks, I'll have to look into it.

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