Every six months or so, I found myself in the same spot. A new release was out, the features were solid, the engineering work was impressive… and yet the same questions kept coming back from sales, customers, and even internal…
How to Install Nvidia Drivers on AlmaLinux I hosted this short tutorial for the official AlmaLinux YouTube channel covering how to install Nvidia drivers on AlmaLinux 10, one of those setup steps that trips people up if they have not…
Breqwatr Customer Story: Ending Scanner Overload with TuxCare Radar I produced this customer story for TuxCare, including the written case study and the short video summary below. Breqwatr builds OpenStack clouds for industries where infrastructure genuinely cannot fail: freight and…
How to Start Contributing to AlmaLinux by Submitting a Pull Request I hosted this short tutorial for the official AlmaLinux YouTube channel walking through how to submit your first pull request to an open source project without ever opening a…
I hosted this solo webinar for TuxCare making the case that you do not actually have to choose between community Linux and enterprise-grade support. The whole pick-a-camp framing is a false choice, and that is what the session is built…
AlmaLinux Enterprise Support: TuxCare Webinar with Benny Vasquez I hosted this webinar for TuxCare with Benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. We covered a lot of ground in about an hour, and honestly the pre-show conversation was just…
Session 0 in The Last Parsec- Savage Worlds Solo RPG When I decided to play a solo Savage Worlds campaign, I wasn’t just adding another bullet (pun intended) to my TTRPG résumé—I was signing up for a one-man voyage across…
During my time as Product Marketing Manager at TuxCare, I owned the product narrative across their Linux security and lifecycle portfolio. Part of that work was a series of short product overview videos where I wrote the scripts and appeared…
Run AI Locally on Fedora with Ollama: Live Ops 005 I wanted to run AI locally on Fedora using an Nvidia GPU I had sitting in my Dell PowerEdge R730 — and an hour and a half later, I actually…
Building a Golden Image | Live Ops 003 The goal was simple: build a reusable Fedora golden image homelab template I can clone whenever I need a new server. Nothing about it was simple. The plan was to use Image…
RHEL Hypervisor Homelab Setup: Live Ops 003 A Dell PowerEdge R730 that’s been sitting in the rack collecting dust finally has a job: and this stream is the whole messy process of giving it one. The goal was straightforward: install…
WordPress Migration to Homelab: Live Ops 002 The WordPress migration homelab project that started as a quick detour turned into a two-hour deep dive — because nothing in the homelab ever goes exactly to plan. If you caught Live Ops…
Self-Hosted Matrix Server Rebuild: Live Ops 001 I fired up a livestream to do something I’ve been putting off way too long: bringing my self-hosted Matrix server back from the dead, live, in real time, with no safety net. The…
As a long-time SysAdmin, one of the core tasks I’ve always had to tackle is managing users and groups on Linux systems. Whether you’re running a personal server or managing an entire fleet of Linux boxes, understanding how to efficiently…
The Apple Vision Pro stands to be one of the next innovations that changes how we use technology. Is it there yet? Not quite, but read on to see what I discovered. I’ve been in IT since before it was my chosen career…
I get asked on a regular basis how I got my start in Linux; over the last couple of days, I put together my most comprehensive list yet and I wanted to share it with all of you! Where do…
In How I built a homelab with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), I laid out my plans for revamping my home lab using as many Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat-adjacent tools as I could get my hands on.…
In 5 changes to help grow your IT career, I discussed establishing a learning mindset and forming daily habits to build your mental muscles. Learning will help you grow as a person (and hopefully as an employee), but work is not…
Change is an intentional, methodical process. You don’t need to wait for a specific date, like New Year’s Day, to resolve to change something—you just need to make a list, and start making small changes today. To do so, make…
As a recovering sysadmin, the last thing I want is to end up being technical support at home. I often tell people that I wish I had the tools available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) now when I was a…
There, I said it! Containers won't fix every application, they won't replace your server farm, and sadly they won't do your laundry.
For a systems administrator, it seems like every project brings new complexity, more servers, and more sprawl to manage. I will assume that your messes are a lot like mine: On one server, you’re running CentOS Linux 7 from a…
IT operations folks strive to not only maximize uptime but also keep systems patched. These might seem like competing goals, but we’re here to help with Live kernel patching in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and enjoy some improvements with…
Way back in the day, humanity created computers to help make our lives easier. In a lot of ways, they have; in others, it’s made life much more tedious, especially for the SysAdmin. What used to be a mainframe has…
The approach to work has changed several times over the past three or so years. We all keep hoping to find that “new normal,” and I think we are in it already. At least for now, our new normal will…