Over the past week, Linus Torvalds has been talking a bit about artificial intelligence. When asked what he thinks of it, he said that it's all about marketing these days, that it will be really important in the future, but that time hasn't come yet. When the "wow" moment passes, things will settle down. It's funny that he said this the same week that has arrived un Linux Lite 7.2 Among the new features is a point called “Lite AI Support”.
There are no image generators or chat bots at the moment… at least in the operating system. What they do have is a web page chatbot which we can ask about any topic related to your system, available at linuxliteos.com/chatai/If we ask it anything, thinking it's some kind of ChatGPT, such as "what time is it?", it won't be able to answer us. But if we ask it about the operating system, it will give us precise instructions. And it's not necessary that they be about the system itself; we can also ask how to install programs, even those that are not in the official repositories.
Other news in Linux Lite 7.2
Regarding the operating system news:
- Based on Ubuntu 24.04.1, the same base as the earlier version, but with a maintenance update already.
- Lite Updates has been rewritten in Yad, as Yad provides more flexibility than Zenity.
- New app: Theme Manager for just that, managing themes.
- Linux 6.8.0-47, with kernel versions ranging from 3.13 to the most current 6.11.
- Chrome 130.
- Thunderbird 115.16.
- Libre Office 24.2.6.2.
- VLC 3.0.20.
- GIMP 2.10.36.
- The default desktop is still Xfce 4.18.
Linux Lite 7.2 is now available, and can be downloaded from the release notes linked at the top of this article. Existing users can upgrade from the /Favorites/Install Updates menu and reboot.