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  • Introducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a new deployment method that takes a container-native approach to deliver the OS as a bootc container image.
  • Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Overview
  • Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux YouTube Example
  • podman-desktop-extension-bootc — Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images.
  • bootc Introduction — Transactional, in-place operating system updates using OCI/Docker container images. bootc is the key component in a broader mission of bootable containers.
  • Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
  • What is InstructLab? — InstructLab is an open source project for enhancing large language models (LLMs) used in generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) applications.
  • InstructLab — InstructLab is a model-agnostic open source AI project that facilitates contributions to Large Language Models (LLMs).
  • instructlab CLI — Command-line interface. Use this to chat with the model or train the model (training consumes the taxonomy data).
  • IBM's Granite code model family is going open source — We're releasing a series of decoder-only Granite code models for code generative tasks, trained with code written in 116 programming languages. The Granite code models family consists of models ranging in size from 3 to 34 billion parameters, in both a base model and instruction-following model variants.
  • ibm-granite/granite-code-models — A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence.
  • Getting Started with Fedora/CentOS bootc — The Fedora/CentOS bootc project generates reference base images that are designed for use with the bootc project. Its goal is to provide a host system easily configurable via container tooling, usable as a container host, but also to allow non-containerized deployments with applications bound to the host context.
  • CentOS/centos-bootc — Create and maintain base bootable container images from Fedora ELN and CentOS Stream packages.
  • LAB Paper: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots
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  • psitransfer — Simple open source self-hosted file sharing solution. It's an alternative to paid services like Dropbox, WeTransfer.
  • bhh32's food-journal — Command line tool and web application to keep track of my food intake.
  • Pick: URL to PNG — A URL to PNG generator over HTTP with a fairly simple API accessed via query params passed to the server.
  • Bonus Pick: Telegraph — Telegraph is a simple Morse translator, start typing your message to see the resulting Morse code and vice versa.