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What is CentOS? | Fedora Podcast 059

·4 mins
The biggest panel we have ever had on the Fedora Podcast sorts out what CentOS actually is now, and where it sits between Fedora and RHEL.

Open, Repairable Homelab Hardware with 45HomeLab

·4 mins

I have a Dell PowerEdge R720 sitting in a colocation facility a few miles from my apartment, and every time it spins up it sounds like a jet engine for a solid 45 seconds. It is six to eight years old, I pay for the rack space every month, and I flat out refuse to hand Dell a thousand dollars just to unlock the IPMI port. Meanwhile I have 3 gig symmetrical Google Fiber at home and the colo caps me at one gig. So the same question keeps nagging at me: why is my server living somewhere else?

SouthEast LinuxFest 2026: Recap

·3 mins
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 an hour, swap contact info, and actually mean it…

CIQ at Open Source Summit 2026: Minneapolis Recap

·2 mins
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.

From Bash to Burnout | My SCaLE 23 Talk

·2 mins
This one was personal. I gave this talk at SCaLE 23 in Pasadena as part of Open Source Career Day, and I will be honest, I almost did not write it because it meant putting some very uncomfortable…