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edit: false alarm, the article is a year old. I saw feb 4th and jumped the gun.

~~hey, what the fuck!? wasn't MICROS~1 recent debacle not a warning huge enough?!~~

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[–] kisst@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This blog post is one year old. Has anyone noticed visible changes yet? On Fedora 43 I have not and I'd be disappointed if such features were ever forced on users.

[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

correct, saw feb 4th and went berserk. maybe take the post down?

[–] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

They do have a framework, I don't know if they plan to bring this to fedora but it's more recent than your article https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-llm-d-and-why-do-we-need-it

[–] azolus@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Whelp, I'm glad I've learnt how to distro hop in time :o

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

how does one do that actually?

shocked that a for profit closed proprietary company would do something so stupid

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Fedora has been implementing an optional ML API. It's up to you if you install it or not.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days ago

Arch + KDE win

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Are you honestly surprised by this? It is IBM after all.

On the bright side it is only Fedora Workstation and not the server line.

[–] user28282912@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Ignoring what users want is the tradition in GNOME and yeah ofcourse Fedora is gonna do whatever RedHat/IBM tells them to do including push AI-slop.

[–] orenj@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago

Oh huh. Now i feel good about hopping from fedora and not really vibing with gnome. GG redhat, no re

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Time to hipooty hop once more

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago
[–] mko@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well, it seems a lot of major distributions include AI tooling. Arch included 😉

https://www.itprotoday.com/linux-os/ai-ready-linux-distributions-to-watch-in-2025

As long as they are opt-in as in packages that can be installed optionally that’s fine. The day a distro has AI tooling embedded, then I can actively opt-out from the distro.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not to mention people can fork said distro and remove the AI tooling themselves.

Such is the beauty of open source.

[–] mko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

Not to mention that almost all model development is done on Linux as I have understood it, so there will definitely exist packages for those that want them.