Chat with an AI using PumpkinOS

In this article we will make a custom version of gpt4all-chat that runs as a server, accepting queries from a remote client. The client, as you may have inferred from the title, runs inside PumpkinOS. For those not familiar with gpt4all-chat, it is a "Cross platform Qt based GUI for GPT4All versions with GPT-J as …

Zig meets PumpkinOS

Having recently found the Zig programming language, I asked myself: what would it take to code a PumpkinOS application in Zig? Now, before we start I should warn you that I had never programmed in Zig before. What I will show here is a proof of concept containing a pretty simple Zig program integrated with …

PumpkinOS, Busybox and Linux

PumpkinOS, in its current form, runs as a normal application on a host operating system, either Windows or a full GNU/Linux OS like Ubuntu. It is convenient because you can use the host OS as a development environment, where the build tool chain is installed. But I was wondering what it would take to run …