The aging MakuluLinux LinDoz distro has evolved into AI-OS, which its developer calls a first-of-its-kind intelligent Linux desktop.
MakuluLinux developer Jacque Montague Raymer released the innovative AI-OS on July 29, built around a highly configurable Cinnamon desktop and a Linux Mint Debian (LMDE) variant base. This new distro provides an embedded artificial intelligence (AI) environment that can perform a wide range of tasks by typing a plain-language request into the floating widget on the desktop.
I have followed the Linux project's lineage since Raymer first launched MakuluLinux in 2020. Having tested various developmental beta builds over the last month, I am impressed with the AI integration and have replaced my daily Ubuntu and Linux Mint drivers on my two laptops. I am also running it as a virtual machine appliance on my desktop computers.
Raymer started working on his Electra AI Center concept three years ago. Early renditions were available in LinDoz and a few other now-discontinued distributions.
"It's been a dream of mine to make a Jarvis-type of Linux, where the user talks to an AI Center interface which can pretty much do anything the user asks of it: run commands, web search, install, remove stuff, diagnose anything, repair anything, code, generate text, images, video and audio," he told LinuxInsider.
