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Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon

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

An epic and still-growing thread in the Fedora forums states one ofthe goals for the next version: the Fedora AIDeveloper Desktop Objective. It is causing some discontent, and atleast one Fedora contributor, SUSE’sFernando Mancera, has resigned.

Fedora Project Lead Jef Spaleta, who tookover the role from Matthew Miller a year ago, remains resolute, saying:

I have zero evidence in front of me that users are being driven awayfrom Fedora because of AI.

As far as Red Hat’s community distribution goes, while this may becontroversial, this should not be a big shock. In October last year,The Register reported that the Fedoracouncil approved a policy allowing AI-assisted contributions, andanyone following the IBM subsidiary’s movements will already know thatlast June’s RHEL 10 release includes access to an LLM-based onlinehelper chatbot: we ...

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