I noticed some new AI features in upcoming RedHat releases, any plan to support these in Rocky?
Even with a RHEL 10.1 developers subscription, it requires a Satellite subscription.
Unlikely. There are no plans for it as far as I am aware and most likely due to the huge requirements for it not just by coding it, but by running a hardware platform behind it to power and maintain it.
This seems like a massive overhead to just ask “what is 2 + 2”?
Satellite is designed to “scale out” to multiple servers, but they say this can’t scale out, and you can only run it in a container on a desktop, and you have to wait for it to answer a simple question, and the model is Microsoft?
Is it all free and open source?
The word that jumps out at me from both articles is “offline”, suddenly everyone is ditching the cloud and going offline, and even Microsoft posted something about an office suite that doesn’t need the cloud, amazing.
No, it will not be included in Rocky Linux.
I consider lack of AI support in Rocky to be a feature; not a bug.
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And a brilliant feature without it too.
I read what RH offers(in the context of using AI)
And I don’t get it.
And what does adding AI add(provide for the administrator), from the RH perspective ?
I don’t understand - why is it there?This is text from the “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7: Top features for developers“:
”More AI assistanceIn RHEL 9.7, Red Hat is introducing an offline, locally available version of the RHEL command-line assistant. Now, users with a Red Hat Satellite subscription can get AI-powered RHEL guidance, even in a disconnected, or air-gapped environment. The locally available command-line assistant is currently in developer preview with a full rollout coming soon. With fully supported offline assistance, developers in government, defense, finance, and other tightly regulated industries can access AI-backed guidance without sacrificing compliance.
Another command line assistant improvement is an increased context limit, from 2KB to 32KB. With more working memory, the command-line assistant can analyze larger log files, pipe more complex data streams, retain more information across prompts, and ultimately take on more intricate tasks..”
Perhaps some kind of hand-holding support assistant that guides you through basic tasks. Not much use at install time, and by then you probably had to learn more than the assistant in order to complete the install. Once installed it might be able to tell you how to install a database using dnf, but whether it can then tell you how to run a database in an enterprise environment is another matter.
Years ago, Microsoft had an annoying paper clip that would appear every time you opened a new Microsoft Office document, it was hard to hide it and almost impossible to turn it off.
From the RH point of view, they probably think they can get rid of humans in call centres, and just tell people to use the AI instead.
One aspect of it that could work: Assuming it is trained using RH official documentation and knowledge base, it would give answers that make sense in an RH enviroment, whereas google would be more general, and not RH specific. The search engine optimization on the RH site is terrible, and the knowledge base is hidden as well; many people have never seen the official documentation; overall many good things about RH are just not visible.
A search and summarize relevant documentation.
Yes, it could be better than apropos something
I’m missing something.
How is this different/better/improved over documentation with a decent index and a good search function? What unique benefit would “ai” provide?