Welcome to Local AI Weekly #4. “Local AI” keeps meaning different things these days. Sometimes the model runs on your computer. Sometimes only the app does, while the model and your chat still run elsewhere. There are lots of such “local AI”
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First thing first. Yesterday, I mistakenly sent the Local AI Weekly newsletter to everyone. That was not supposed to happen. I’ll be more careful in the future. Let’s go with our regular dose of Linux and open source. Snapdragon X2 processor support
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📋 I mistakenly sent the Local AI Weekly to the subscribers of FOSS Weekly. My bad. A long, tiring day led to this mishap. Won’t happen again (hopefully). Welcome to issue #3. I said weekly last time and here we are, one
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It’s FOSS reader Mišo Oroz shares how he migrated a small transport and logistics company in, Bergamo, Italy to Linux and open source to reduce cost and ordinary technical problems. This is the kind of positive stories we need to hear more.
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Welcome back to Local AI Weekly. I promised a weekly, and then took a month to send the second one. So let’s call the first one the pilot episode. From here, the show will run weekly 🤘 This issue leans heavily toward
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Let’s start with the good news. Switzerland is on track to kick out Microsoft across 3,000 workstations in its Federal Chancellery. The Firefox Nova redesign lands for everyone in Firefox 157 on September 29, six months after it leaked. The version shipping
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Firefox 155 has arrived quietly, speeding up page loads with Happy Eyeballs v3 and QUIC v2. And the timing is perfect for you to switch. Google just removed uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store, leaving Firefox one of the last non-Chromium
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Linux 7.3’s merge window is still open, but what’s already confirmed looks like the foundation for one of the more performance-heavy releases in a while. Btrfs direct I/O is pushing close to 95% of theoretical throughput, EXT4 is hitting 2.19 million IOPS
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LightDM 1.33.0 is out after a four-year gap, now under community maintainership rather than Canonical’s. Two new maintainers, one behind Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix and the other a long-time Fedora and openSUSE contributor, have stepped up. Nitrux has given a name to what
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Linux Mint is getting automatic old kernel cleanup in the next release, a feature Fedora has handled through DNF’s installonly_limit for years. And I did not even know that Mint doesn’t do it. The Document Foundation has put up a write-up (part
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