[ale] SemiOT: Local AI machine was musicians colaboration software.

[William Wylde]

No problem.  I didn't do a whole lot there... lol.    And you're very
welcome.

I've never messed with Mandrake.  I started on linux with zipslack, 30
years ago, stuck with slackware for most of the years since then.  Tried
Redhat once, didn't really enjoy it, then messed around with Ubuntu
(actually Lubuntu) for a couple of years- till I moved to debian.   I'm
getting a little two-nick micro-box in a day or two that I'm going to use
for a firewall machine (gonna put everything important- i.e. everything
except the echo crap my Dad gave me for Christmas & whatnot, & a couple of
Roku boxes- behind a machine where I can see whats going on between my
stuff and the interwebs).   I don't know whether I'll go with slackware or
with debian yet.

Is Mandrake a fork of another distro, or is it it's own vision and version
of Linux?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM William Bagwell via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> Sorry, forgot to thank you for this last week. Helpful despite us going in
> slightly different directions. I'm going with Kubuntu (Ubuntu under
> the hood) and has more detailed Comfy install instructions. Correct-ish
> Python version and Nvidia drivers in the repository.
>
> Wasted much time trying to solve these problems in various decedents of
> Mandrake. (Mageia, OpenMandriva, etc) which is what I have used for 20
> plus
> years.
>
>
> On Sunday, October 12, 2025 07:57:50 PM William Wylde via Ale wrote:
> > https://www.youtube.com/shorts/80GPnQIFZHA
> >
> > I think I'm going to go with Debian.  I already have Claude AI interface
> > installed in a docker container on my kali box, Monster.  It'll let you
> > load you own local LLM to interact with it.  So that's probably what I'm
> > going to do.  My nephew, in Va. is running his LLM on Arch, but he
> doesn't
> > have the iron I've got.   He gave me the MB I'm building it on, though.
> >
> >
> > From what I understand, I'm going to have to do some tweaking to get the
> > GPU's i'm going to be using working correctly with X or Wayland.  It
> seems
> > that they will both try to use the accelerator GPU's for video output
> > instead of the computational processes they're supposed to do.   But I
> > think it'll be worth it, and it doesn't seem to be too much harder than
> > anything else you have to tell the system to do- manually.   No biggie,
> > just be aware.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM William Bagwell via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> > > On Sunday, October 12, 2025 07:39:40 AM William Wylde via Ale wrote:
> > > > Too bad.  I guess after I build my local AI machine I will ...
> > >
> > > Details please! Specs, distro, other stuff... ComfyUI? Assuming images
> > > please
> > > disregard if text.
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