First Fedora Hummingbird community meeting — this Thursday, 8am ET. Image-based OS built with bootc — manage your OS like a container. Use cases, roadmap, blockers. Everyone welcome. Please share! meet.jit.si/FedoraHummingbird #FedoraHummingbird #bootc

You might have missed it with all of the other Red Hat announcements, but we launched this last week. If this area interests you, please come join our community! #fedora #linux #bootc #podman https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-hummingbird-linux-taking-the-hummingbird-model-to-the-full-os/

Fedora Linux 44 is out. Konflux for bootc images, MariaDB vector support, GCC 16 toolchain. Come check it out. https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-44/ #Fedora #Linux

VIM forks rejecting AI vs. upstream VIM with AI + more contributors. Real experiment in a mature project. My money's on upstream, but we'll learn either way. https://lwn.net/Articles/1067007/ #VIM #OpenSource

I've watched rootsofthevalley.org grow to 120k+ lines. Rewritten News & Events 5+ times to keep it lean. Cantrill explains why: LLMs lack the virtue of laziness — work costs them nothing. https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/ #AI

What if your AI agent could SSH into your RHEL image and debug it before production? Red Hat's MCP integration delivers live OS telemetry + CVE scanning in your IDE. https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/14/building-red-hat-mcp-ready-images-image-mode-red-hat-enterprise-linux #RHEL #MCP

AI completes GPL: Roots of The Valley (https://rootsofthevalley.org)—open source map, solo+AI. Impossible before. Now real, belongs to everyone. https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/ #FreeSoftware #AI

Qwen 2.5 122B, local, on consumer GPUs just added a visual editor to OpenSCAD's C++ codebase. 70 minutes. No cloud. No API key. Local LLMs are past the demo phase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAjQJsnEFqo #LocalLLM

"Open source is the baseline for innovation, and we intend to keep this foundation strong." Red Hat on Mythos, AI vulnerability scanning, and why context beats panic. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/navigating-mythos-haunted-world-platform-security #OpenSource #RHEL

"Your Container Is Not a Sandbox" never mentions SELinux. Not once. Containers *do* contain — I run OpenClaw --read-only with SELinux enforcing and sleep fine. https://emirb.github.io/blog/microvm-2026/ #containers #SELinux

I dare you: put on the NIN Tron Ares soundtrack at 11PM, start a pomodoro timer, and build something. 53% critics, 87% audience — that gap tells you who this movie was made for. https://crunchtools.com/build-midnight/ #TronAres #NIN #AI

RHEL 11's "60% plan" — shared publicly at CentOS Connect 2026. Intentionally incomplete because the community shapes it through Fedora ELN and CentOS Stream. Slides + recording: https://crunchtools.com/centos-connect-2026-rhel-11-planning-room/ #RHEL11 #CentOS #OpenSource

Watched Jevons Paradox as PM for Podman — cheaper containers meant more Kubernetes spend. O'Grady maps the same pattern onto AI agents. More Linux, more containers, more Kubernetes — with agent orchestration on top. https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/01/08/tide-of-agents/ #AI #AgenticAI

RHEL 10 support until 2035. Toughbooks built for 5-year cycles. Two hardware lifetimes, one OS. Good Techzine coverage of the Toughbook 56 launch. https://www.techzine.eu/news/devices/139569/red-hat-powers-panasonic-toughbook-56-with-a-rugged-os/ #RHEL #EdgeComputing

PCs didn't kill mainframes. E-commerce didn't kill retail. Streaming didn't kill Hollywood. Sinofsky makes the case AI won't kill software either — demand grows, domain expertise matters more. https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/238-death-of-software-nah #AI #Software

Panasonic TOUGHBOOK — certified on RHEL. Worked with their team on the RHEL 10 roadmap. Great Q&A on air-gapped edge computing for defense and field work. https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/panasonic-connect-q-and-a #RHEL #EdgeComputing

RHEL image mode has a value prop nobody's talking about: the confidence to let AI agents experiment, knowing you can reboot to a known-good state. I run --dangerously-skip-permissions daily. https://crunchtools.com/image-mode-gave-me-the-confidence-to-go-fully-agentic/ #RHEL #bootc #AI

Meta spent $70M lobbying for OS-level age verification. Front group has no IRS filing. Same TikTok astroturf playbook. Anti-competitive or surveillance? https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/ #Linux

EFF banned AI-generated docs from their open source projects. Docs are what AI does best. The real fix for bad PRs? Free AI code review tools like Gemini Code Assist. 2024 thinking, 2026 problems. #OpenSource #AI #CodeReview

The new workday should be 3-4 hours. Steve Yegge's "The AI Vampire" explains why — AI automates easy work, leaves nothing but hard decisions all day. Your employer captures 100% of the value. You get burnout. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163 #AI #Burnout

Three outcomes when something breaks in computers: fixes itself, stays broken, or you go to war. My print screen key died and I found a fourth option: let Claude Code fight the gremlins. Ten minutes later, fixed. https://crunchtools.com/my-print-screen-key-stopped-working/

Zero CVEs is the symptom of doing the deeper work right — trusted pipelines, provenance, minimal attack surfaces. Not the goal itself. #SupplyChainSecurity https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/zero-cves-symptom-larger-problem

No Linux distro offers a structured incubation path for new projects. Fedora's Sandbox proposal could change that. I wrote about why, using Podman's early survival story as evidence. https://crunchtools.com/fedora-sandbox-podman-early-days/ #Fedora #Podman #OpenSource #Containers

InfraGard turns 30. I first joined 20+ years ago at NASA. Started at FBI Cleveland in '96, near where I grew up in Akron. Free threat intel, local FBI contacts, 45K members. Most people in tech don't know it exists. Join: https://infragard-kms.fbi.gov/intake/ #InfraGard

I publish to six platforms from a terminal now. Self-hosted Postiz on RHEL 10, one Podman container, MCP integration with Claude Code. Full build walkthrough including the OAuth pain. https://crunchtools.com/self-hosting-postiz-rhel10-one-container-six-platforms/ #RHEL #Podman #MCP #OpenSource

The old guard says AI coding tools will prevent kids from learning architecture. I think we're wrong. Architecture is about how systems interface, not where the semicolons go. New post on why breadth beats depth. https://crunchtools.com/how-will-they-ever-learn/ #AI #SoftwareArchitecture #OpenSource

500+ tools. 25+ MCP servers. One terminal. I wired Claude Code into every system I use, built 7 of the servers myself, and wrote a guide so you can replicate it. https://crunchtools.com/my-mcp-server-setup-practical-guide/ #MCP #OpenSource #AI

My database needed 26 schema migrations to upgrade RT from 4.4.4 to 6.0.2. Used Claude Code as my pair programmer. Went to bed and it ran to completion. Full write-up. https://crunchtools.com/rt-upgrade-ai-copilot/ #RHEL #Containers #SysAdmin #AI

RHEL MCP Server demo: AI agent connects to five systems, finds a full disk, a config typo, and a runaway DB query. Real tools, real diagnostics. Developer preview now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gICQ4aam1D0

Rebuilt my monitoring stack: Nagios veteran → Zabbix on UBI 10. One container, real CI/CD tests, and Claude Code can query it via MCP to troubleshoot directly. https://crunchtools.com/zabbix-monitoring-stack-alpine-to-ubi10/

I just wanted to find a sci-fi movie. Google gave me spam. YouTube gave me AI-generated slop. So I used AI to fight AI — and found exactly what I was looking for. https://educatedconfusion.com/searching-for-sci-fi/ #AI #SciFi

Rebuilding my Request Tracker server (yes, I still use Perl in "production") and it occurs to me — CPAN is the Gentoo of programming languages :-) #respect #perl #opensource

My AI fact-checked a conspiracy video in 3 min — 15 sources, fabricated quote traced to 2015. Could I have manually? Sure. Would I? No. https://educatedconfusion.com/i-dont-trust-ai-either/ #AI #FactChecking

New post: CI/CD for Image Mode RHEL — building a full RHEL 10 bootc workstation image with GitHub Actions, Podman, and RHSM activation keys. Includes 4 workarounds for the rough edges. #RHEL #bootc buff.ly/YKyXIb7

Excited to share that we'll be at #RedHatSummit in Atlanta this May. The Roadmap Beyond RHEL 10: Building RHEL the open source way — how community collaboration shapes the future of RHEL. The best ideas don't come from a vacuum. buff.ly/WSjgS5B #RHEL #fedora #centos

"chasing a perfect score of zero CVEs can sometimes be counterproductive if it distracts from deeper defense-in-depth strategies" buff.ly/u14GjrF #linux #rhel #centos #fedora #opensource #sysadmin

Open source AI agents managing Fedora fleets — no API keys, no vendor lock-in. Local models are more ready than most people think. buff.ly/J8d6DwK #oss #opensource #linux #fedora #rhel

I feel like Crunchtools has a renewed mission again. New, secure, practical MCP Servers for open source projects. More to come (Mediawiki, Pagure, pcloud, etc): buff.ly/Nz5Y5Si #oss #opensource #linux #fedora #rhel

I disagree, I'm using Claude to generate MCP Servers and even complex open source software like my Acquacotta Pomodoro timer and rootsofthevalley.org - Vibe Coding Killing Open Source?

Hard disagree. I'm using Claude to generate MCP Servers and even complex open source software like my Acquacotta Pomodoro timer and rootsofthevalley.org - Vibe Coding Killing Open Source? hackaday.com/2026/02/02/h...

RPM and DNF features and enhancements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 buff.ly/rBNuK5R #linux #rhel #centos #fedora #opensource #sysadmin

Smarter troubleshooting with the new MCP server for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (now in developer preview) buff.ly/k9NEyA4 #rhel #linux

Super interesting. This guy turned an LLM loose to manage a server, then told it to write public blog about what work it was doing each day: buff.ly/YXl90lb #linux

“My basic model of modern artificial intelligence labs is that they are like emotionally intense graduate school programs but with unlimited money,” - Matt Levine 2026

If You’re Not Using AI This Way, You’re Doing it Wrong crunchtools.com/if-youre-not... #productmanagement @sysadmin #opensource

Great explanation of why Podman is great! - Production-Grade Container Deployment with Podman Quadlets | Larvitz Blog blog.hofstede.it/production-g... #linux #rhel #centos #fedora #opensource #sysadmin

Please let us know what you think! Beyond modularity and other upgrades: The game-changer for your IT planning www.redhat.com/en/blog/simp... #linux #rhel #centos #fedora #opensource #sysadmin

Super exciting. This is going to make the getting-started (day 0) experience with bootc a LOT easier. The day 2 experi nice is already amazing. fedoramagazine.org/introducing-... #linux #rhel #centos #fedora #opensource #sysadmin

Red Hat Accelerates AI Trust and Security with Chatterbox Labs Acquisition www.redhat.com/en/about/pre... #AI #ML #DL #NN #oss #opensource

Run containerized AI models locally with RamaLama www.redhat.com/en/blog/run-... #AI #ML #DL #NN #oss #opensource