This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us and we talk about RHEL AI, quantum computing, and we get an update as to where Red Hat landed with all the licensing drama from a few years ago.
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00:50 Real ID
Real ID Act from 20 years ago
Problems with Real ID
Canadian Central Government
Alternatives to Real ID
Surrendering information
"Be Your Real Self"
Government creating problems they can solve
No one wants to admit they are wrong
EFF.org (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/security-theater-realized-and-flying-without-real-id)
12:57 News Wire
Firefox 139 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/139.0/releasenotes/)
Firefox shutting down Pocket - mozilla.org (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket)
Linux 6.15 - kernelnewbies.org (https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.15)
Most of WSL Open Source - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-finally-open-sources-most-of-windows-subsystem-for-linux/)
NixOS 25.05 - nixos.org (https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/)
RHEL 10 - redhat.com (https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux-10)
AlmaLinux 9.6 - almalinux.org (https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-05-20-almalinux_96_release/)
Fedora Removes X11 - pagure.io (https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3408)
Karton - blogs.kde.org (https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/18/gsoc-2025-project-intro-developing-karton-the-kde-virtual-machine-manager/)
SMB Server Zero Day - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/linux-kernel-zero-day-smb-vulnerability/)
Devstral - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-launches-devstral-powerful-new-open-source-swe-agent-model-that-runs-on-laptops/)
LlamaFirewall - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/05/26/llamafirewall-open-source-framework-detect-mitigate-ai-centric-security-risks/)
Woodpecker - siliconangle.com (https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/21/operant-ai-launches-woodpecker-bring-open-source-red-teaming-ai-cloud-environments/)
14:25 Mike McGrath - VP of Software engineering
Have things calmed down?
Red Hat and Communities
RHEL 10
RHEL Lightspeed
Mike McGrath's background
Lightspeed vs Search Engine
CentOS Stream
SIGs & community
Upstream and CentOS Stream
RHEL AI
RHEL AI "developer license"
How is AI effecting RHEL?
Is the OS a "bootloader" for AI?
Agentic AI
Post Quantum attacks
39:33 OPNSense
What Steve and Noah run at home
Netgate/PFSense have done shady things
ycombinator.com (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36489192)
reddit.com (https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ssk8zj/til_in_2017_pfsense_netgate_had_to_hand_over/)
PFSense
Requires an account to download
Can't virtualize
Can't between CE and Appliance
Starts at ~$1000
Many devices failed, soldered in
Netgate hardware doesn't meet PFSense Standards
Zero Support
No update cadence
Can't reliably automate PFSense
OPNSense
Fork of PFSense
Much nicer interface
DHCP backend switching
Always moving forward
Hardware device doesn't have weird VLAN bonding
Newegg (https://www.newegg.com/p/22Z-007C-003M8?Item=9SIAK3UGAF5164)
Up date cadence
Shop and kids router changed over
Steve's attempt to migrate
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