Episode 389: Ask Noah Show 389 Ask Noah Show

This week Matt Hicks the CEO and President of Red Hat joins the Ask Noah Show to talk about AI! We answer your questions about how to get a voice point-to-point link, plus we'll tell you what we're thinking for SELF.


-- During The Show --

00:50 SELF Announcements


Ironing out meetup details
AMA session
War stories
Steve's talks
Retro installs


04:00 Landline to Wireless? - JM


Bell S60900
DECT
EnGenius Long Range
NewEgg link
VOIP


Base
Phone
Point to Point Link



10:20 News Wire


Dillo 3.1 - Dillo Git Hub

RHEL 9.4 - Unix Sysadmin

Alma and Rocky 9.4 - Alma Linux - Rocky Linux

Fedora Asahi 40 - Ars Technica

Manjaro 24 - Manjaro

KDE Framworks 6.2 - KDE

Linux 6.9 - lkml.org

Linux Libre 6.9 - FSFLA

Linux on Amazon Devices - OMG Ubuntu

Granite AI Models - Forbes

Romanian LLM - The Recursive



11:35 Matt Hicks Interview


Matt Hicks - Red Hat CEO
How does Red Hat stay on top of new technologies?
Future of AI?
90s Linux mindset?
AIX
Service aspect, solving customer problems
Making the software work for the customer
People want on prem
Involving open source community
Open source and AI
How does Red Hat stay competitive with massive AI models?


IBM and AI
Know where you get your data from
Small highly trained models

Matt Hick's geek projects


Door Bell

Matt Hick's Daily Driver


Fedora 40
Dell laptop



29:38 KeePassXC


Debian developer removed functionality from KeePassXC
Debian developer refused to restore functionality
KeePassXC developer pushed people to use FlatPak
We trust distro maintainers


We don't want to do it our selves
Largely thankless job

Functionality is necessary in today's age
It's a package not a plugin
Talk to the software developer first?
Why not have a separate "secure" package?
At some point you have to allow user choice
What does "stable" mean?
Noah's Flatpak Remmina
Flatpak themeing
Linux IAC
Debian.org


45:00 Endless OS 6


Based on Debian 12
Gnome 43
Pipewire audio
Endless OS offline for Noah's kid
Endless OS is opinionated
9 to 5 Linux
System 76 and Pop! OS


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