Setting Up Ollama on Linux
Running LLMs (large language models) locally is becoming more practical every month. Ollama makes it straightforward to pull, run, and manage models on your own hardware without needing a cloud API key. In this post, I will walk through getting Ollama up and running on a Linux machine. What is Ollama? Ollama is an open-source tool that lets you run LLMs locally. It wraps model weights, configuration, and a serving layer into a single workflow. You can think of it like Docker but for language models. You pull a model, run it, and interact with it through the terminal or an HTTP API. ...