Description

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.

-- During The Show --

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

12:57 News Wire

• Firefox 139 - mozilla.org

• Firefox shutting down Pocket - mozilla.org

• Linux 6.15 - kernelnewbies.org

• Most of WSL Open Source - zdnet.com

• NixOS 25.05 - nixos.org

• RHEL 10 - redhat.com

• AlmaLinux 9.6 - almalinux.org

• Fedora Removes X11 - pagure.io

• Karton - blogs.kde.org

• SMB Server Zero Day - gbhackers.com

• Devstral - venturebeat.com

• LlamaFirewall - helpnetsecurity.com

• Woodpecker - siliconangle.com

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
• reddit.com
• 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
  • Up date cadence
• Shop and kids router changed over
• Steve's attempt to migrate

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Special Guest: Mike McGrath.