Show HN: Gerbil – an open source desktop app for running LLMs locally
The article discusses Gerbil, an open-source image processing library written in Rust that provides a set of tools for image manipulation and analysis. The library aims to offer a high-performance, memory-efficient, and user-friendly solution for common image processing tasks.
Under the hood it runs llama.cpp (via koboldcpp) backends and allows easy integration with the popular modern frontends like Open WebUI, SillyTavern, ComfyUI, StableUI (built-in) and KoboldAI Lite (built-in).
Why did I create this? I wanted an all-in-one solution for simple text and image-gen local LLMs. I got fed up with needing to manage multiple tools for the various LLM backends and frontends. In addition, as a Linux Wayland user I needed something that would work and look great on my system.