CIQ

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 support RLC Pro adds.

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 Pro AI.

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 under strict compliance.

I spent three days on the expo floor at Open Source Summit 2026 in Minneapolis with Howard Van Der Wal and Stephen Simpson, and it was one of the better events we have done this year.

I wrote this piece for CIQ making the case for RLC Pro, what it is, who it serves, and why the foundation it is built on matters before you get to any of the enterprise features.

I wrote this explainer for CIQ introducing RLC+, the free, GPU-ready tier that sits between community Rocky Linux and the full RLC Pro subscription.

Getting from the Azure Marketplace to actual inference used to mean a day of driver archaeology. This webinar with Brian Dawson, Damon Knight, and Hugo from Microsoft Azure’s core engineering team is…

I wrote this deployment guide for CIQ, walking through how to get RLC Pro up and running on Google Cloud Marketplace from start to a live VM.

I wrote this guide for CIQ covering how to get RLC Pro running on AWS, from the Marketplace listing to a live EC2 instance with LTS and FIPS available.

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.

Damen Knight of CIQ and I dig into the hidden cost of configuring Linux for GPU and AI workloads.

I wrote the launch post announcing the CIQ portal going live at portal.ciq.com, covering what it is, who it’s for, and how to go from registration to your first download in under a minute.