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		<title>AI and the Human in the Loop &#124; IT Guy Show Ep. 022</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AI and the Human in the Loop: What Actually Gets Replaced &#124; IT Guy Show Ep. 022 Episode 22 of The IT Guy Show is a milestone for me, and not just because the number is round. Karl Abbott was my very first guest back on episode one, and he came back for what turned [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bootc in the Wild &#124; Fedora Podcast Ep. 054</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bootc in Production: What It Actually Looks Like &#124; Fedora Podcast Ep. 054 Episode 54 of the Fedora Podcast is out, and this one digs into something I am genuinely curious about for my own homelab: what does bootc look like when someone is actually running it day to day, not just kicking the tires? [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Flock to Fedora 2026: What to Expect in Prague</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Flock to Fedora 2026: What to Expect in Prague Flock to Fedora 2026 is heading back to Prague this June, and on episode 53 of the Fedora Podcast, Noah and I sat down with Justin Wheeler and Emma from the Fedora design team to talk through everything contributors and community members need to know. For [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Deploy RLC Pro on Microsoft Azure Marketplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Deploy RLC Pro on Microsoft Azure Marketplace I wrote this deployment guide for CIQ covering how to get RLC Pro running on Microsoft Azure, from the Marketplace listing to a production-ready Enterprise Linux environment. The post opens with a question worth asking: how much time does your team spend configuring Enterprise Linux after launch? LTS [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Fresh Install to AI Inference in Under 4 Minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Fresh Install to AI Inference in Under 4 Minutes Getting a GPU box ready for AI workloads is way harder than it should be, and we proved that live on the CIQ Webinar Series on April 2nd. I brought in Brian Dawson from CIQ product management, Damon Knight (CIQ&#8217;s resident AI nerd and automation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>CIQ Portal Launch: Deploy Enterprise Linux Your Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CIQ Portal Is Live: Access and Deploy CIQ Products on Your Own Terms I wrote the launch post announcing the CIQ portal going live at portal.ciq.com, covering what it is, who it&#8217;s for, and how to go from registration to your first download in under a minute. The portal is the central hub for everything [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Migrate from RHEL to RLC Pro Without Re-Architecting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How to Migrate from RHEL to RLC Pro Without Re-Architecting I wrote this guide for CIQ covering how to convert a running RHEL system to RLC Pro, without rebuilding servers or re-certifying your application stack. The core of the post is Enterprise Linux binary compatibility. Because Rocky Linux builds from the same source RPMs as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Enterprise Linux Should Actually Be &#124; CIQ Webinar</title>
		<link>https://itguyeric.com/enterprise-linux-support-rlc-pro-ciq/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ITGuyEric]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What Enterprise Linux Support Actually Means (And Why It Matters) Rocky Linux is everywhere, and for good reason. But community is not always enough, and this webinar is where Brady Dibble and I got into exactly what changes when you need a vendor behind your Linux stack. Brady is CIQ&#8217;s director of product management and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Proactive Linux Security: How RLC Hardened Goes Beyond Patching</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Proactive Linux Security: How RLC Hardened Goes Beyond Patching Reactive security is table stakes at this point, and it is not keeping up. I sat down with Nathan Blackham, Brady Dibble, and Sultan Alof from CIQ to talk about what it actually looks like to build defense into the operating system from day one. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Run AI Locally on Fedora with Ollama: Live Ops 005</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ITGuyEric]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 got it working. Here&#8217;s what the road looked like. The hardware is a Tesla K80, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Building a Golden Image  &#124; Live Ops 003</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Building a Golden Image &#124; 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 Builder inside Cockpit to create a base Fedora server image, then store the resulting QCOW2 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>RHEL Hypervisor Homelab Setup: Live Ops 003</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[RHEL Hypervisor Homelab Setup: Live Ops 003 A Dell PowerEdge R730 that&#8217;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 RHEL 8 on bare metal and get the R730 running as a RHEL hypervisor homelab [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WordPress Migration to Homelab: Live Ops 002</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 001, you know we got the Matrix server almost running — right up until an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rebuilding My Matrix Server From Scratch (Live Ops 001)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Self-Hosted Matrix Server Rebuild: Live Ops 001 I fired up a livestream to do something I&#8217;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 stream started simple enough — spin up a fresh VM, throw CentOS 7 on it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mastering User and Group Management on Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 02:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a long-time SysAdmin, one of the core tasks I&#8217;ve always had to tackle is managing users and groups on Linux systems. Whether you&#8217;re running a personal server or managing an entire fleet of Linux boxes, understanding how to efficiently handle user and group permissions is essential for maintaining a secure and organized system. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Apple Vision Pro &#124; IT Guy&#8217;s first impressions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Apple Vision Pro stands to be one of the&#160;next&#160;innovations that changes how we use technology. Is it there yet? Not quite, but read on to see what I discovered.&#160; I&#8217;ve been in IT since before it was my chosen career path. When I first started out in my career, I was just an enthusiast. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 I start!? One of the best ways to get comfortable with Linux is to utilize [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ansible Beginner&#8217;s Guide: Automate the Pain Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Way back in the day, humanity created computers to help make our lives easier. In a lot of ways, they have; in others, it&#8217;s made life much more tedious, especially for the SysAdmin. What used to be a mainframe has turned into hundreds of servers, containers, and virtual machines spread across data centers, clouds, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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