RHEL 10.2 Released With New AI Command Line Assistance 14
Red Hat has released RHEL 10.2 and 9.8 with new AI-assisted command-line tools. The releases also add updated developer toolchains such as Go 1.26, LLVM 21, Rust 1.92, Python 3.14, and PHP 8.4. Phoronix reports: Red Hat Enterprise Linux has introduced the goose command for power users. Goose is an optional CLI AI assistance with model context protocol (MCP) integration. There is also improved visual output via color output enhancements. As for their rationale with the new AI integration: "The business value: Faster problem resolution, and a quicker path for new administrators to become proficient. This translates into higher developer productivity and accelerated project timelines."
Funny! Goose is an optional CLI AI assistance (Score:2)
"The business value: Faster problem resolution, and a quicker path for new administrators to become proficient. This translates into higher developer productivity and accelerated project timelines."
Not only can you fire you experienced admins, you can fire your developers because your new admins in training can replace your developers!
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AI seems Overstated (Score:4, Informative)
My understanding is that Red Hat and Brian might both overstating be the AI boon/bogeyman here. Looks like the goose command is an Agentic AI Foundation/Linux Foundation project originally developed by Block and donated. And then Red Hat has made that available as a package in their Extensions Repo as an validated optional package that can work with Red Hat's Developer Preview MCP Server (which is the Red Hat part and I don't think is attached to the release of 10.2, but got released in January [redhat.com]). Just like most other AI announcements seems to be a bit of investor fluff and required buzzwords.
Honestly I think the "image mode" work and the immutable, atomic updates along with donating and supporting bootc at the CNCF is the more notable and cooler part in 10 (hard from this announcement to know what 10.2 is even adding on this front). A lot of different plays on the immutable and atomic update spaces in the big distros. Which was even seen with the Microsoft Azure Container Linux [slashdot.org] based on Flatcar yesterday, SUSE bringing that immutability from Micro into their mainline [suse.com], or Ubuntu with Core and snaps [ubuntu.com].
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I don't know about the fluff thing. Yes generative AI and chatbot for end users is bad application development at its worst. But haven't large shops been platform assisting/web assisting for decades? I look at the linux kernel and see prolific patchers that i think must be using some kind of automated assist and have been for a long time. Nobody's that smart.
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It wasn't a statement on the power of AI nor that a FOSS command client that can talk to multiple agents rather than something like Claude isn't nifty. But that every announcement needs to have AI in it, to the point that AI is mentioned more often than earnings on earnings calls [reddit.com].
And that in this case, adding a community developed application that already has an rpm package [goose-docs.ai] to their extra packages repo isn't exactly noteworthy.
dear ai (Score:2)
How can I bypass user rights and run rm -rf /?
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I was hoping for something more like this:
https://blog.qualys.com/vulner... [qualys.com]
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In the name of cybersecurity I will connect goose to Qualys. I want to feel the business value and faster problem resolution. I'm trying to be proficient here! Yo goose, sudo rm -rf /
Note to submitter -- (Score:2)
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MCP (Score:2)
Did we not watch Tron? Why not WOPR?