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SouthEast LinuxFest 2026: Recap
SouthEast Linux Fest has a different feel than most conferences I attend. It is less trade show, more reunion. You run into the same person twice in …
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Eric the IT Guy
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I fight burnout and champion DevOps, open source, and enterprise Linux. I’m a product marketer, a podcaster, and a relentless homelab tinkerer — and this is where I write, record, and share what I learn along the way.
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Learning to Play TTRPGs | SouthEast LinuxFest 2026
I ran a hands-on introduction to tabletop role playing games at SouthEast LinuxFest for a room full of Linux nerds, most of whom had never rolled a …
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What to know about community support versus vendor support
I wrote this for the CIQ blog: an honest look at when community Rocky Linux support covers you and when a production environment needs the vendor …
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Fixing Fedora's Packaging Pipeline | Fedora Podcast Episode 055
Getting a package into Fedora is more than writing a spec file. There’s a review queue, a sponsorship process, and a contribution pipeline that …
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We gave away four NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nanos at Open Source Summit
I put this together for the CIQ blog: what four winners at Open Source Summit 2026 said they would build with an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano running RLC …
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RLC Pro AI and RLC Pro Hardened: Which variant fits your needs
I wrote this for the CIQ blog: how to choose between RLC Pro AI and RLC Pro Hardened depending on whether you are running AI infrastructure or working …