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.

  • RiverRabbits@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    75·
    1 day ago

    This isn’t a “ghost in the machine”. This is “introducing rot directly into the core of the machine”.

    Time to boycott all ubuntu and fedora derivatives and distributions. Fuck AI!

    • unphazed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I just got comfortable with Bazzite, too. Cept the wrird OOM that popped up with Firefox, still attempting to fix that one…