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?!
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?!
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.
Not to mention people can fork said distro and remove the AI tooling themselves.
Such is the beauty of open source.
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.
I doubt AS FUCK that Arch devs would deliberate add any AI on it. This article has literally not a single source.
Just send me the original source.
Well, is the default package repository good enough as a reference?
Just a couple of examples.
https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=Gpt&maintainer=&flagged=
https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=Openai&maintainer=&flagged=
This has nothing to do with Arch itself, these are just packages.
They allow you to be free to install whatever you want.
When people say “Arch is implementing AI” I think something like AI on Arch native stuff, not third party packages.
Well, they aren’t AUR, but vetted packages. The only difference I see from what Fedora or Ubuntu does is not do any marketing. All of them have AI tooling opt-in so far.
Running Arch without any packages in the standard repo would be a pretty special experience.