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.
Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon
https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/10/both-fedora-and-ubuntu-will-get-ai-support-soon/5237409
6 Comments
rhubarb@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 107d
All this shit needs to be opt-in, let people pull the code to run this shit if they want but don’t force it upon everyone to juice your metrics.
Let the AI features stand on their own rather than pushing it to everyone then saying “Look at the uptake of this product”
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 107d
Ugh. Stop. Go away. I don’t want pre baked ai shit. If you want to make libraries available fine. But if it’s already in there from the get go? Miss me with that shit. Not thrilled to change my servers to a different OS.
a_good_hunter@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 107d
As long as it's easy to remove / purge... Or not there by default.
nettie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
Ugh. I've got one fedora box. Going to debian. Even if AI shite gets into sid, it'll be years after the bubble's popped before it reaches stable 🤣
Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 106d
Most of distros already support AI Dev, all you need is Python
BlameTheAntifa@piefed.social · 0 pts · 107d
I’m glad I found Cachy, because Fedora is now as dead to me as Ubuntu.