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Ubuntu (Microsoft Canonical) and Fedora (IBM) Promoting Ponzi Scheme of Slop for No Good Reason (No User Demand for That)
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It's FOSS ☛ After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the Hey Hi (AI) Bandwagon With Dedicated Hey Hi (AI) Developer Desktops
Planned across three new Fedora releases, the initiative targets Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and ARM hardware.
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Two Fedora Remixes follow, one with CUDA runtime support and one with the full CUDA toolkit, the latter of which has some licensing issues that the project will have to tackle.
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The Register UK ☛ Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon
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, Fernando Mancera, has resigned.
Fedora Project Lead Jef Spaleta, who took over the role from Matthew Miller a year ago, remains resolute, saying: "I have zero evidence in front of me that users are being driven away from Fedora because of AI."
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TechRadar ☛ 'I have zero evidence in front of me that users are being driven away from Fedora because of AI': Ubuntu and Fedora confirmed to both get AI support soon
The AI Developer Desktop Objective for Fedora has become a controversial one within the Linux community, attracting criticism from users and contributors alike.
In a discussion in the Fedora Project thread, the Linux distro is confirmed to be getting an AI overhaul in upcoming iterations that would see it become capable of running AI models locally instead of having to rely on cloud-based alternatives.