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AI runs on Linux. Period. There are no substitutes.
Canonical and Red Hat are building Nvidia Vera Rubin-specific Linux distros.
The Linux kernel is being tuned for AI and ML workloads.
Modern AI began with open source, and it ran on Linux. Today, Linux isn't just important for artificial intelligence; it's the foundation upon which today's entire modern AI stack runs. From hyperscale training clusters down to edge inference boxes, it's all Linux from top to bottom.
Also: I tried a Linux distro that promises free, built-in AI - and things got weird
AI's magic tricks are really the aggregate output of very prosaic infrastructure: supercomputers, GPU farms, and cloud clusters that almost all run some flavor of Linux. The core machine-learning frameworks -- TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and friends -- were all developed and tuned first on Linux. Tooling around these tools, from Jupyter and Anaconda to Docker and Kubernetes, is similarly optimized for Linux.
Why IT jobs will live and die on Linux
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