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Notes from our open discussion on Linux and AI: hardware for local inference, robotics, homelabbing, Home Assistant integration, coding agents, and more.

France's government has announced a coordinated migration from Windows to Linux across all ministries. Linux Victoria looks at what Australia can learn from fifteen years of proven open-source success in the French public sector.

A recap of our first Let's Hello World session where we explored n8n, the open source workflow automation tool.

Summary of the discussions had at Linux and AI Tuesday Night chats

A recap of our February 2026 Town Hall meeting featuring discussions on open source tools, community connections, and digital freedoms.

Our first Penguin Picnic since 2020 brought together regular members and alumni for a memorable day at Yarra Bank Reserve.

An epic install fest filled with Ventoy magic, Mac Linux adventures, and inspired collaboration!

It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and meet new community members at our LUV breakfast during Everything Open 2026!

As the year is closing, let's recap what Linux Victoria and LUV has been up to as well as the exciting plans brewing for 2026!

How we rebuilt a donated PC into a Proxmox-based sandbox for testing Linux distros, running open-weight LLMs, and creating disposable VM environments accessible through Tailscale or future one-click web buttons.

In July 2025, we started running weekly discussions on the intersection Linux and AI titled LAIT Night: Linux & AI Tuesday Chats. Great conversations were had every week, with participants discovering new AI tools and LLM's that focused that were open source and/or open weight.

What a special day filled with great conversations about the importance of open source in regional Australia.

Read about our developments, what's new this past month and what we have been working on.