AI-2 Files

AI-2 ISO of 17 September 2026, with ai-2 0.18.0.

The knowledge this image carries is now reachable without knowing a command. Applications > AI-2 > Search Knowledge is the second entry of the AI-2 menu; it asks for a question and keeps asking, and what it shows is the text of the documents themselves, with the source of every passage named. On the machines AI-2 is built for this answers in seconds, where a chat answer takes minutes.

Also new since 20260916:

• w3m on the image and ai-2 gopher, so one computer can serve its knowledge packs to every other machine on the network, read with any Gopher client and no AI-2 on the asking side.
• The three packs in /etc/skel now record where they came from, so ai-2 knowledge list says "from the AI-2 installation image".
• Knowledge packs carry a revision, so a pack file can no longer put an installed pack back to an older version.

As in 20260916, the image carries the three knowledge packs (ai2-help, linux-essentials, everyday) and the 85 MB English embedding model, so a fresh install answers questions about its own documentation, about everyday Linux trouble and about 196 countries with no network at all.

2,058,627,072 bytes (1.917 GiB), sha256 babff9010ddc28e9ddcb46c8b0e482330b39fdafcab1040fb2b9fd90b693a4a1.

Verified by a complete QEMU install (erase disk, BIOS) and first login, then on the installed system: the packs listed with their origin, a search answered from the everyday pack with its licence and attribution and no network, the AI-2 menu, and the Gopher server read by w3m.