I’ve been following the conversation around Jef Spaleta’s Fedora Sandbox proposal with a lot of interest, and I think it’s worth sharing some perspective from someone who lived through exactly the kind of situation this framework is designed for. When Podman was getting started, we didn’t have anything like a structured lifecycle process in Fedora,
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In large enterprise software companies like Red Hat, two organizations build the product: the Business Unit (BU) and the Engineering org. The BU owns business strategy, market positioning, pricing, and customer relationships. Engineering writes the code and ships the bits. These aren’t adversaries. They’re two halves of the same machine. Steven Sinofsky, who ran Microsoft
We’ll be heading to Atlanta this May for Red Hat Summit 2026 and I’m pleased to share that my session has been accepted. The Roadmap Beyond RHEL 10: Building RHEL the open source way (RM1169) RHEL 10 is barely out the door and people are already asking what’s next. Fair enough — it’s the right
It was late last night. The kids were finally in bed, the house was quiet, and I found myself with that dangerous combination of exhaustion and curiosity. I had a couple of hours of freedom, and I decided to tackle something that had been itching to do for a while: getting Claude Code running on
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | Boston, MA Speakers: Stef Walter & Scott McCarty At Red Hat Summit 2025, Stef Walter and I presented “The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Roadmap: Reimagining a Linux Platform” as part of the RHEL 10 launch. Abstract This session explores how Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 can help teams solve
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For years, I think many of us in the open source world assumed that we knew everything there was to know about open source, but the truth is, we’re all still learning. In the last couple of years, there have been some big changes in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) supply chain, often referred to as Enterprise Linux or EL for short. This talk will help people understand these changes year over year, and what the future might hold.
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For years, I think many of us in the open source world assumed that we knew everything there was to know about open source, but the truth is, we’re all still learning. In the last couple of years, there have been some big changes in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) supply chain, often referred to as Enterprise Linux or EL for short. This talk will help people understand these changes year over year, and what the future might hold.
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A little less than three years ago, Red Hat shifted focus in the CentOS project, from the downstream rebuild to the upstream called CentOS Stream. I wrote a heartfelt response to try and explain it better: Before You Get Mad About The CentOS Stream Change, Think About… That article seemed to help dispel some of
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Introduction Are you a professional Linux Systems Administrator, Architect, or Site Reliability Engineer? Do you use Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or a derivative in the course of your work? Do you find it difficult to keep up with all of the changes that have been going on with RHEL in the last few
This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.
