I am looking at resintalling my OS (currently Mint) which I have been running for a few years.

Mint is great and I may end up going back; but was thinking of trying something new.

I want to be able to play with local models and agents; I have a pretty decent system.

  • AMD 3700X
  • 64 GB DDR4
  • AMD RX9070 16GB GPU
  • 2TB NVME SSD
  • A few TB of HDD's

What are some good options for easily running models and agents; I have been using ollama to run models; but I'm sure things have moved on since I begun playing with things a year ago.

Give me a few tips; I am going to have a bit of time on my hands over the next few months.

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[–] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I agree with the sentiment in general, ollama sucks and is problematic, but the obstacle that stands in the way of that is reflected pretty much right here:

llama-swap handles multi-model orchestration, loading, unloading, and hot-swapping models on demand behind a single API endpoint. Pair it with LiteLLM and you get a unified OpenAI-compatible proxy that routes across multiple backends with proper model aliasing.

The article is just vaguely asserting people can go ahead and install 3 different applications and then figure out how to configure them to talk to each other and do all the things you want it to do seamlessly, without ever even attempting to explain how to actually do that, just to get what ollama does in 1 installer.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago*

    Yeah, pick your poison. And mind this article is a few months old. I'm not sure where we're at as of today, but plain llama.cpp has multi model routing built in as well. Not sure if all of those extra steps are still necessary to do.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago*

    Ignoring the other comments around complexity. If anybody is considering running LiteLLM in their lab. I strongly recommend looking at GOModel instead. LiteLLM was nothing but bugs, slow page loads, and security issues for me. GOModel just worked and was simple.

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