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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! -- During The Show -- 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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies 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. -- During The Show -- 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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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? -- During The Show -- 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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies

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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies 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! -- During The Show -- 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 -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies