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.

  • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
    311·
    2 days ago

    Always pretty funny to see the FOSS community willingly follow the lead of corporate investment trends, but for fractions of pennies on the dollar compared to big tech.

    If you’re gonna act like Microsoft you might as well do it for the money.

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      To be fair, those two distros are owned by big corporations so it’s not unexpected.