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
How I set up a fully local voice pipeline for Claude Code on RHEL 10 using Whisper.cpp, Kokoro TTS, and Intel Meteor Lake GPU acceleration via PyTorch XPU — achieving a 22x speedup with no cloud dependencies.
There’s a lot of negativity toward AI in the Fedora and RHEL communities right now. I get it — the hype cycle is real, and a lot of the marketing is insufferable. But I think the negativity is causing people to tune out, and when you tune out, you miss genuinely cool work that’s directly
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Friday, January 30, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium Speakers: Brian Stinson & Scott McCarty At CentOS Connect 2026, Brian Stinson and I presented “Inside the RHEL 11 Planning Room: How Fedora and Stream Shape the Next Enterprise OS.” Abstract Red Hat is unveiling an early “60% plan” for RHEL 11, currently in development. This presentation explores
January 29 – February 1, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium I’ll be heading to Brussels at the end of January for CentOS Connect 2026 and FOSDEM 2026. CentOS Connect (January 29-30) CentOS Connect is the premier contributor conference for the CentOS Project, happening as part of the FOSDEM Fringe. This year it’s at the DoubleTree Brussels
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This is the way….. Have three day planning meeting with 15 people, for a large product with 2000+ people involved in total Use Jira or other tracking software to refine Market Problems and Features Use auto-transcribe for most meetings, but have a couple of non-recorded meetings to discuss sensitive topics Share the transcripts with the
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I wrote an article that explains why community-driven open source is especially important with AI: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2337481/kubernetes-shows-the-way-forward-for-ai.html
Background There’s a common move with software teams; one team will ask another team to do something really hard so that the first team can do something really easy. Most of the time, we don’t even mean to do it. But, it causes a lot of stress and wastes a lot of time. It reminds
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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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Background Recently, the Enterprise Linux (EL) supply chain has been pretty interesting. The announcement of CentOS Stream as an upstream for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in late 2020, the announcements of Alma Linux and Rocky Linux as downstream rebuilds, and the announcement of AWS Linux 2022 being built as a downstream of Fedora are
