Nix, Flox, Nvidia Opening Up CUDA Redistribution on Nix

[niklaskorz]

That’s a welcome development!

Does this have any relation to or implications for the existing Nix Community cache that has added CUDA caching less than a year ago?

CUDA Cache for Nix Community

Disclaimer: the author of this note is not a member of the Nix Community infrastructure team The official NixOS Hydra does not build unfree packages due to the associated legal and security concerns. This has made consuming CUDA-enabled Nixpkgs challenging for an end-user because of both the expensive mass rebuilds, triggered by importing nixpkgs with { config.cudaSupport = true; }, and the cost of building certain leaf derivations such as python3Packages.{torch,jaxlib,tensorflow} or blender.…