Hey everyone!
We have an exciting development to share with you. Flox has been chosen as one of a small number of open source platforms enabled by NVIDIA to redistribute the CUDA Toolkit, libraries, and dependencies.
If you have ever tried to flox install anything that works with these CUDA packages, you may have noticed a lengthy build from source. That’s because the patchelf modification required by Nix would violate the CUDA license agreement if made against their binary releases….so source it is! 
With this new agreement, we can now offer a binary cache for these packages. That means installation times should speed up by a whole bunch 
But it also means that NVIDIA is becoming more and more interested in working with open source communities - and pretty cool that we’re one of them.
For more info, look at flox.dev/cuda. It’s in early access now, and there’s still a lot of work to do validating and testing all of these new cached packages, and making sure they work well together. We’d love to hear what you think.