This OS quietly powers all AI - and most future IT jobs, too

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• 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.

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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 ...