Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Running an LLM on Ubuntu using modern AMD hardware doesn’t have to be hard.
Thanks to the joint efforts between Canonical and AMD, the entire ROCm stack is now available in the Ubuntu archives. To make it accessible, Lemonade server has been modified to utilize the natively packaged stack. In this talk, Mario and Ken share what it took technically to achieve this, and give a quick look at how to use Lemonade to get the most out of your hardware.
About Mario
Mario Limonciello is a veteran developer that participates in multiple open source communities. He is an Ubuntu Core developer, Debian developer, Linux kernel maintainer and a fwupd maintainer. He works for AMD and is passionate about providing better experiences for laptop users with modern hardware.
About Ken
Ken VanDine is a veteran open source developer and author, with over 30 years of experience building Linux distributions. After beginning his journey with Slackware in 1993 and architecting globally distributed HPC clusters, he translated his passion for purpose-built systems into a 17-year career at Canonical. His work focuses on GNOME, Ubuntu Desktop, and Snap integration. Today, Ken is extending that expertise into local AI development, building applications using the Lemonade SDK.
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Running an LLM on Ubuntu using modern AMD hardware doesn’t have to be hard.
Thanks to the joint efforts between Canonical and AMD, the entire ROCm stack is now available in the Ubuntu archives. To make it accessible, Lemonade server has been modified to utilize the natively packaged stack. In this talk, Mario and Ken share what it took technically to achieve this, and give a quick look at how to use Lemonade to get the most out of your hardware.
About Mario
Mario Limonciello is a veteran developer that participates in multiple open source communities. He is an Ubuntu Core developer, Debian developer, Linux kernel maintainer and a fwupd maintainer. He works for AMD and is passionate about providing better experiences for laptop users with modern hardware.
About Ken
Ken VanDine is a veteran open source developer and author, with over 30 years of experience building Linux distributions. After beginning his journey with Slackware in 1993 and architecting globally distributed HPC clusters, he translated his passion for purpose-built systems into a 17-year career at Canonical. His work focuses on GNOME, Ubuntu Desktop, and Snap integration. Today, Ken is extending that expertise into local AI development, building applications using the Lemonade SDK.
🌍 Ubuntu Summit 26.04 is a showcase for the innovative and the ambitious.
Find out more: ubuntu.com/summit
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