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.

  • Mokey Fraggle@therock.fraggle-rock.org
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    2 days ago

    I hope actual weights are not packaged as part of the OS. The inference engine, sure, but again, it’s gonna get stale really fast.

    Friends don’t let friends run Ollama. There are much better options.