Furores are fermenting in the forums

Both Ubuntu and Fedora have made it official: support is coming soon for running local generative AI instances.

An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one of the goals for the next version: the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and at least one Fedora contributor, SUSE’s Fernando Mancera, has resigned.

  • ejs@piefed.socialEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    lol they already support running local models. wtf is the distro gonna do…? pre-install llama.cpp? this is so silly to me that people are resigning over this, too.

  • SlicedPotato@feddit.dkEnglish
    0·
    4 months ago

    Soooo, which distro to switch to next? Or are they all gonna go down this route eventually? Maybe I’ll try a *BSD for once.

    • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      pretty much anything that is “you build it youself” so Arch, NixOS, Gentoo, etc

      but yeah I’m also tempted to finally give BSD a go.

          • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            4 months ago

            LLMs are useful to only a subset of users, so including it in general distribution is waste, because many people will end up with this software that was downloaded, installed, and maintained by someone, but they never use at all.

            That’s absolutely untrue in this case.

            If you read the article (the headline text is a link to an article) you would see that they specifically address this:

            -AI tools will not be added to Fedora’s existing system images, Editions, etc, by the AI Desktop initiative.

            It won’t be included in the general distribution. They’re talking about a new system image that someone would have to choose to install.