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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by CamperBob2 on Monday January 06, 2025 @11:57PM (#42619399)
Where does it say they won't be supporting Win32?
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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by narrator on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:01AM (#42619432)
Here he says that in order for the cloud and the PC to be compatible, he's going to only support WSL2, the Windows subsystem for Linux which is a Linux API on top of Windows.

Here's a link to the part of the keynote where he says this:

https://youtu.be/MC7L_EWylb0?t=7259

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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by stonogo on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:36AM (#42619600)
"Linux API on top of Windows" is an interesting way to describe a virtual machine.
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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by pulse7 on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:45AM (#42619650)
WSL1 was "Linux API on top of Windows", WSL2 is "Linux VM on top of Windows"
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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by pjmlp on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:55AM (#42620963)
More like,

WSL1 was "Linux API on top of NT kernel picoprocesses", WSL2 is "Linux VM on top of Hyper-V"

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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by mycall on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:17AM (#42622524)
I wish WSL1 was open sourced
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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by pjmlp on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:22AM (#42622571)
Picoprocesses are based on Drawbridge research, so at least there is some reading about how it all works,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/windows-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/under-the-hood-of-microsofts-w...

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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by sedatk on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:38AM (#42619614)
That’s more like WSL1, yes.
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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by SteveNuts on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:42AM (#42619634)
WSL2 is no longer a VM, afaik.
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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by gnabgib on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:50AM (#42619684)
Other way around (1 wasn't, 2 runs in a managed HyperV VM) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/compare-versio...
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Re:Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' by sliken on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @12:36AM (#42619602)
The keynote mentioned that it could be used as a Linux workstation.
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