Episode 511
Ask Noah Show 511
October 20th, 2026
53 mins 59 secs
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This week Matt Hicks CEO of Red Hat joins the program to talk about the people behind the mission critical infrastructure, and AI.
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00:50 Intro
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06:20 Distro Challenges - Randy
19:50 News Wire
Peazip 11.4 - github.io
Firefox 158 - firefox.com
Thunderbird 158 - thunderbird.net
KDE Plasma - kde.org
Libreboot 26.10 - libreboot.org
JOREK Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic Simulation - iter.org
Molecule Computational Tool - ohio.edu
Ubuntu 26.10 - ubuntu.com
Gnome OS Preview - gnome.org
Tails 7.15 - torproject.org
PwnEscape - thehackernews.com
Klein Version of Flux3 - bfl.ai
Moss-Image - openmoss.ai
Deepseek V4.1 - huggingface.co
IBM's llm-d 1.0 - research.ibm
Microsoft Defender on Linux - theregister.com
KDE turns 30 - kde.org youtube.com
21:15 Red Hat interview
- Matt Hicks
- People behind mission critical infrastructure
- Red Hat's "Any Cloud, Any AI"
- Journey of migrating platforms
- Red Hat and supporting AI on GPUs, the use case wins
- What keeps your passion for open source alive
- What does "Open Source AI" mean?
- How do Open Source models compare?
- Local AI
- Podman desktop
- Has Red Hat changed since you joined
- Doorbell project
- Effect of
- What have you left out of Red Hat AI?
47:17 3D Printing and Maker
- Creality
- Two approaches, "magic button" vs "learning the tool"
- Thingiverse
- Cults 3D
- Cura slicer
- Snap maker
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