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  • Who cares?

    The people who actually spent the time writing the code and documenting it, remember these LLM’s have to learn from somewhere.

    A lot of repositories use the GPL license.

    The GNU General Public Licenses are a series of widely used free software licenses. The GPL is a copyleft license, which means that it guarantees end users the freedom to run, study, share, or modify the software, but if you distribute a derivative work or modification, you must provide the source code to those recipients under the same or equivalent license terms — there is no requirement to publish anything to the public at large.

    I doubt many LLM’s are sighting their sources or giving proper credit when they spit out code snippets.


  • What distro are you using? There are 3 big distro’s you need to keep in mind for, Debian, Arch and Fedora, every other distro typically bases themselves off of one of these big distro’s.

    Documentation is your friend, if you’re using a Debian based distros the stress ng repository linked above has this in their documentation -


    Debian packages for Ubuntu

    Recent versions of stress-ng are available in the Ubuntu stress-ng ppa for various Ubuntu releases:

    https://launchpad.net/~colin-king/+archive/ubuntu/stress-ng

    (run the commands below to install the package)

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:colin-king/stress-ng
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install stress-ng
    

    Now that is installed, they have an examples section.


    Examples

    Run 8 CPU stressors for 60 seconds:

    stress-ng --cpu 8 --timeout 60
    stress-ng: info:  [184401] setting to a 1 min run per stressor
    stress-ng: info:  [184401] dispatching hogs: 8 cpu
    stress-ng: info:  [184401] skipped: 0
    stress-ng: info:  [184401] passed: 8: cpu (8)
    stress-ng: info:  [184401] failed: 0
    stress-ng: info:  [184401] metrics untrustworthy: 0
    stress-ng: info:  [184401] successful run completed in 1 min
    

    Couple of definitions and examples that will help you along the way.

    • Package = Software
    • Dependencies = Xyz package depends on xyz package to function
    • Package manager = The package used to install other packages (apt, yum, rpm, etc)
    • Root user = User ID = 0 (UID) and Group ID = 0 (GID) otherwise known as the administrator account
    • Root filesystem = the “/“ folder