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This week Mike McGrath Vice President, Core Platforms for Red Hat joins us to give us the deep dive on Lightwell!

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00:50 Intro

Iron sharpens Iron

Feedback

01:50 Show Feedback - Joshua

Talking fast at the end of the show

Inserting tutorial style content

04:05 Lightwell Interview

Mike McGrath - Vice President, Core Platforms

What is Red Hat Lightwell

Where Lightwell came from

Illustration scenario

Using AI but interfacing "Human to Human"

Two tiers of Lightwell

Lightwell "Network" repo

Lightwell "Remediated" repo

Lightwell "Undisclosed" repo

How it works

Does Lightwell address compliance requirements?

Remediation

What does using Lightwell look like?

Software Bill of Materials

Clearing house with SLA

Details really matter

Package versioning

Scanner false positives based on versioning

OSV.dev, Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) data

Open Source packages, scanning and remediation

How often does upstream reject patches?

Has Lightwell opened doors?

Any notable success stories?

What does Lightwell's roadmap look like?

Where is Lightwell appropriate?

What metrics and KPIs should IT leaders look for?

Walk me through a typical developer workflow

Cost benefit analysis

How does Lightwell integrate with existing Red Hat products?

Previously on ANS 343, ANS 416, ANS 443, ANS 494

43:55 News Wire

GNU Core Utils 9.12 - phoronix.com

Calibre 9.15 - https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

Thunderbird 156 - thunderbird.net

Firefox 156 - firefox.com

Gnome 51 - gnome.org

Q4OS 6.9 - q4os.org

Garuda Nix - garudalinux.org

MXLinus 25.3 - mxlinux.org

Ovirt-engine on Oracle Linux - oracle.com

Qwen Image 2.1 - qwen.ai

US District Court AI Ruling - devops.com

45:10 Microsoft Ports Co-pilot with Ai

$120,000 in AI tokens spent to port

800,000 lines of code

5,300 human hours to review

16x faster based on benchmarks

Reaction of an actual developer

Can't put toothpaste back in the tube

Effect of Microsoft doing this

The Register

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Special Guest: Mike McGrath.

This week Steve gives the deep dive into the reason and the how for documentation. It's an essential thing in any IT environment, it doesn't get nearly enough love so we shine a spotlight on it.

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00:45 Intro

Sound effects

RPG Web UI

Never Winter Nights

Kansas City

Steve and traveling

09:18 News Wire

GTK 4.24 - gnome.org

Shotwell 33 - gnome.org

Agama Installer 24 - github.io

Cosmic v1.8 https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.8

Debian 13.7 Trixie - debian.org

MocaccinoOS 26.09 - mocaccino.org

DietPi 10.7 - dietpi.com

KaOS 2026.09 - kaosx.us

Ubuntu 24.04.5 - phoronix.com

Sandbox Challenge - securityweek.com

Lunar Exploration Model - ibm.com

CUDA-Q Expands - nvidia.com

10:30 Documentation

Document "why" something was done

Assumption and argument

What needs to be documented

Reproducer - Blow it away and set it up again

Document everything

Why do people resist documenting

Executive vs Technical Summaries

Tribal knowledge

Styles of documentation

White papers

CMA

What should you NOT document

Process of documenting

Where do you document

Wiki.js

Markdown

Steve's container documentation

Steve's GitHub

Steve's Red Hat profile

Hackaday

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This week Noah and Steve get into a fireside chat about Ai. Where is it okay to turn it loose, and where do some guardrails need to be in place?

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00:50 Intro

Butterfly Effect movie

Open AI models and weights

Effect of trying to squeeze out open source

04:48 Cyclical computing - David

The new topology

Normal people vs home lab

Long way to go

Hardware costs

Restricting doesn't work

AI and responsibility

20:50 News Wire

Audacity 4.0 - audacityteam.org

Firefox 155 - firefox.com

Thunderbird 155 - thunderbird.net

Mir 2.29 - canonical.com

Curl 8.22 - daniel.haxx.se

Docker 29.8 - docs.docker.com

OpenVPN 2.7.7 - openvpn.net

Linux 7.1 EOL - endoflife.date

Tails 7.12 - torproject.org

Open Source Camera - petapixel.com

Vulcan Robotics - banyanhill.com

Automotive and Media Targeted - securityweek.com

Abu Dhabi AI - reuters.com

22:10 AI Fireside Chat

Securing the supply chain

Home Lab responsibilities

Transition to managed services

AI security tools

Passwords

Steve lets AI loose on his Home Assistant

AI mistakes

AI breakouts

Constraining AI

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This week we spent time with Braden Stroot, a highly detail-oriented professional engineer who was a hardcore Mac enthusiast and recently switched to Linux. He walks us through his journey to Linux and shares the distro and environment he’s chosen to meet his high bar for perfection on the Linux desktop.

-- During The Show --

00:48 Intro

Been a week

Braden Stroot

Engineer

Recent Linux convert

01:55 Standing Desks - Byron

Finishing final edits

Will be up on the docs site

02:57 LLM Usage - Jeremy

Will AI hamper innovation?

Could allow people more "innovation time"

Innovation vs modification

Dealing with AI submissions

10:00 News Wire

Libreoffice 26.8 - libreoffice.org

Openshot 4.0 - openshot.org

Kdenlive 26.08 - kdenlive.org

Calibre 9.14 - calibre-ebook.com

Cosmic 1.7 - phoronix.com

Ardour 9.8 - ardor.org

Vanilla OS 3 - vanillaos.org

EndeavourOS Titan Nova - endeavouros.com

Ur Project - phoronix.com

Epic Games Store Linux Support - steamdeckhq.com

Microduck - techcrunch.com

Nvidia Buys Hugging Face - theinformation.com

Debian Allows Responsible AI - debian.org

Linus Torvalds AI Demo - freedesktop.org

CA Age Verification Law Exemption - tomshardware.com

Braden Stroot Interview

Why did you become an engineer?

What did you use before?

When did you start using Linux?

Started with Pop!_OS and Cosmic

Building a computer

Rough edges of developing DE

Nobara Linux

CachyOS and Hyprland

Desktop performance

Learning topics to fix problems

Audio on Linux

What rough edges did you find?

Package availability

Stability of Arch

Update frequency

What made you interested in Hyprland?

My Linux 4 Work ML4W

Is Linux only for geeks?

Never going back "switch flip"

Remote into a Mac

RustDesk

What hardware platform would you choose?

Framework Laptop

Every OS has rough edges

What causes you to still reach for the Mac?

What audio work do you do?

Ardour

Zynthian

Easy Effects

Room EQ Wizard

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Special Guest: Braden Stroot.

This week we talk about alternative ways to remote into your PC. Eric the IT guy joins us to talk about BootC, and we celebrate Linux' 35 birthday!

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00:48 Intro

Being a perfectionist

PLA 3D printing

06:00 Remoting in - David

Archiving 35mm photos and 8mm film

Mainframes

Sunshine and Moonlight over Tailscale

Cyclical trends

Convergence device

Interface to the "mainframe"

"Hack" steam streaming

15:41 BootC Interview

EricTheItGuy - Eric Hendricks

What is bootc

Why bootc?

Roll back and reproduce-ability

Updates

Troubleshooting

Initial experience

What you should know first

Mind shift

Local bootc

Advantages of bootc

Getting started

Installing the desktop

Eric's bootc pitch

41:30 Happy Birthday Linux

Linux turns 35 years old

Impact of Linux on Steve

Impact of Linux on Eric

Impact of Linux on Noah

The world runs Linux

9 to 5 Linux

49:24 Struggling with "Good Enough"

Building bridges

Loosing sight of the MVP

Steve's example

Eric's example

Being good stewards

Write in!

News Wire

KDE Gear 26.08 has been released

Filezilla 3.71 is now available

RPM 6.1 is out

Rust 1.98 has been released

COSMIC Desktop 1.6 is now available

Thunderbird 154 is out

Firefox 154 is also out

The GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu has been released

The tails team has announced the availability of Tails 7.11

Garuda Linux has pushed out its latest release

Slackware based Porteux 2.8 is now out

OpenAI Open Sources Codex Harness Framework

TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents

AT&T is Using Open Source Models to Curb Anthropic Bills

A New Nonprofit Aims to Build Open-Source Software for the ARM Industry

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