--- title: Canonical announces it will distribute NVIDIA DOCA-OFED... description: Canonical will integrate and distribute the NVIDIA DOCA-OFED networking driver stack directly into Ubuntu's repositories. DOCA-OFED is a high-performance... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/canonical-announces-it-will-distribute-nvidia-doca-ofed-in-ubuntu-8d1bcfonn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Canonical announces it will distribute NVIDIA DOCA-OFED in Ubuntu | daily.dev og:description: Canonical will integrate and distribute the NVIDIA DOCA-OFED networking driver stack directly into Ubuntu's repositories. DOCA-OFED is a high-performance... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/canonical-announces-it-will-distribute-nvidia-doca-ofed-in-ubuntu-8d1bcfonn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8D1bcFonn.png og:image:alt: Canonical announces it will distribute NVIDIA DOCA-OFED in Ubuntu og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Canonical announces it will distribute NVIDIA DOCA-OFED in Ubuntu **[Ubuntu](https://daily.dev/sources/ubuntu)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Canonical will integrate and distribute the NVIDIA DOCA-OFED networking driver stack directly into Ubuntu's repositories. DOCA-OFED is a high-performance networking stack used in AI factories and HPC clusters, enabling RDMA, GPUDirect, low-latency transfers, and high throughput for LLM training and distributed simulations. Previously, admins had to manage these drivers through external installers or manual builds, causing kernel mismatch and version conflict issues. With this integration, installation becomes a single apt command, lifecycle management is simplified, and deployments become more predictable. This follows a similar recent announcement about distributing the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit in Ubuntu. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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