Generative AI with Ubuntu on AWS. Part II: Text generation

In our previous post, we discussed how to generate Images using Stable Diffusion on AWS. In this post, we will guide you through running LLMs for text generation in your own environment with a GPU-based instance in simple steps, empowering you to create your own solutions. Text generation, a trending focus in generative AI, facilitates […]

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Profile workloads on x86-64-v3 to enable future performance gains

Ubuntu 23.10 experimental image with x86-64-v3 instruction set now available on Azure Canonical is enabling enterprises to evaluate the performance of their most critical workloads in an experimental Ubuntu image on Azure compiled with x86-64-v3, which is a microarchitecture level that has the potential for performance gains. Developers can use this image to characterise workloads,

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How to Install and Setup MERN Stack with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04

How to Install and Setup MERN Stack with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04

MERN stack is a setup with MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js. This is one of the variants of MEAN stack. MongoDB is the database, Express with Node.js is used for backend which communicates with the database, React is the client side or frontend. We will use Nginx reverse proxy to Node.js server and setup Let’sEncrypt

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Blender 4.1 Released! New Nodes, Faster Performance and Python 3.11

Blender, the popular free open-source 3D creation software, announced new 4.1 major release this Tuesday. Blender 4.1 introduced new geometry nodes, including Index Switch, Musgrave, Split to Instance, Sort Elements, Rotate Rotation, Active Camera. It replaces mesh “Auto Smooth” option with a modifier node group asset, adds support for Blackbody shader node, new Manage panel

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Free Planetarium App Stellarium 24.1 Adds Low Graphics Mode

Stellarium, the free planetarium app, release version 24.1 a day ago. Stellarium is a free open-source desktop app for Linux, Windows, and MacOS. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. The software released version 24.1 this Tuesday that features low-graphics mode support,

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What is a telco cloud?

Telecommunications companies (telcos) are well on their way to transforming their infrastructure from the legacy, unadaptable, complex network of dedicated hardware from yesteryears to agile, modular and scalable software-defined systems running on common off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. Within this space, the current trend, driven by 5G deployments, is to complement tried and tested network function virtualisation

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Dash to Panel Updates with GNOME 46 Support

Dash-to-panel, the popular GNOME Shell Extension, got a update few days ago with the latest GNOME 46 support. For those who don’t know about dash-to-panel, it’s a free open-source extension for GNOME, which replaces the default panel and dock with a single bottom bar. Along with ArcMenu, user can easily customize the desktop to Windows

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GNU Emacs 29.3 Released with Emergency Bug Fixes [Ubuntu PPA]

GNU Emacs editor released new 29.3 as an emergency bug-fix release this Sunday. The new release intended to fix several security vulnerabilities described below: Arbitrary Lisp code is no longer evaluated as part of turning on Org mode. This is for security reasons, to avoid evaluating malicious Lisp code. New buffer-local variable ‘untrusted-content’. When this

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