Open Source

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…

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 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.

Why Rocky Linux? Enterprise Linux Built to Last

I made it to Bellingham this spring for LinuxFest Northwest, and I get why this event has been earning its reputation for 27 years.

Nathan Haines and I talk about what makes Ubuntu different at a human level after more than twenty years of community.

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…

I gave this talk at SCaLE 23x in Pasadena as part of Open Source Career Day, and it is probably the most personal thing I have ever put on a stage.

I open 2026 with a reality check on subscription fatigue and kick off a new arc on building a personal homelab.

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 terminal.

Brodie Robertson and I dig into the end of X11 and the rise of Wayland on the Linux desktop.

AlmaLinux Enterprise Support: TuxCare Webinar with Benny Vasquez