I’ve been running Claude Code on my RHEL 10 workstation for a few months now, and I have to admit, with some embarrassment, I often run it with the ominous –dangerously-skip-permissions option. It reads and writes files, executes shell commands, installs packages, modifies system configs, all without asking permission first. I’ve been letting an AI
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I’ve been running RHEL 10 image mode on my laptop since a few days before Red Hat Summit in May 2025, and I recently deployed it on a Linode VPS on March 4th. The whole experience has taught me something about how people actually adopt this technology, because I think the journey looks a lot
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I replaced Buffer with a self-hosted instance of Postiz running on RHEL 10. One Podman container. Six social media platforms. Full API control. This is the technical walkthrough of what I built and what broke along the way.
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Request Tracker 4.4 reached end of life in November 2025. I’d been running RT 4.4.4 in a container on one of my Linode servers since 2020, and the upgrade to RT 6.0.2 had been sitting in my backlog for months. It’s the kind of task that’s never urgent until it is. You and I both
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A practical walkthrough of setting up CI/CD for a RHEL 10 bootc workstation image using GitHub Actions, Podman, and Quay.io — including the workarounds you’ll actually need.
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
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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