Neal Gompa has hosted 20 Episodes.
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75: I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee | SUDO Show 75
April 1st, 2026 | 1 hr 7 mins
10base2, april fools, bouncy balls, business, coffee culture, containers, enlightenment e16, enterprise, fedora.js, fvwm95, gateway cow boxes, gentoo, hdmi to floppy, kata containers, kubernetes, lan parties, linux, msp life, open source, open source airplane, opensource, openstack, pacman batch file, pc speaker, podman, reactos, school computer lab, serial mice, software, sudo show, sysadmin pranks, tech pranks, technology, use flags, vm matrix, windows 9x, x11, xfree86, yaml, zipslack, “i don’t know how to make coffee”
SUDO Show 75, “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee,” is an April Fools episode where Bill, Neal, and Noel swap “business meets Linux” for their most devious tech and coffee pranks, from Windows 9x and FVWM95 shell tricks to decaf‑only offices, LAN‑party chaos, and Kubernetes‑and‑YAML jokes.
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74: The Great Cloud Breakup | SUDO Show 74
February 26th, 2026 | 1 hr 20 mins
aws, azure, business, business meets linux source, capex vs opex, cloud exit fees, cloud repatriation, data residency, data sovereignty, egress costs, enterprise, gcp, great cloud breakup, home lab, hybrid cloud, kubernetes, linux, linux kernel, linux networking, microshift, nethogs, nvme‑over‑fabrics, opensource, opensudo show, oracle cloud, oxide computer company, private cloud, rclone, restic, software, technology
Moving to the cloud was easy; getting out is the hard part. In SUDO Show 74, Bill, Neal, and Noel dig into “The Great Cloud Breakup” and why more teams are rethinking cloud‑first dogma as exit fees rise and data residency laws go live across the US, EU, UK, and beyond. They talk through how modern Linux, NVMe‑over‑Fabrics, and on‑prem hardware make repatriation realistic again, spotlight rclone and Nick Craig‑Wood for making data movement sane, and share hard‑won stories about ugly data transfers and hybrid architectures. The episode wraps with a tongue‑in‑cheek “repatriate AWS onto three Raspberry Pis” action item and a NetHogs quick fix you can run today to catch chatty services before egress fees blow up your budget.
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73: Career Pipeline 2.0 – Building Your Linux Path
January 15th, 2026 | 1 hr 27 mins
ai in it, aws certification, business, career pipeline, certifications, citrix, comptia a+, conferences, enterprise, fedora, fwupd, gnome, help desk, homelab, kde plasma, linux, linux careers, lpic, lvfs, meetups, open source, opensource, public speaking, red hat, rhcsa, soft skills, software, sudo show, suse sca, sysadmin, systemd, systemd-analyze, tech careers, technology, wayland, x11 sunset
SUDO Show 73 revisits the classic “Career Pipeline” topic with a fresh panel and an updated roadmap for building a Linux and open source career today. Bill, Neal, and Noel start with the “Wayland-only” future of the Linux desktop, spotlight Red Hat’s work on fwupd and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, then dive into education, certifications, homelabs, open source contributions, and soft skills that turn curiosity into real-world tech jobs. They wrap up with a practical systemd-analyze “quick win” you can run right now to understand and improve your system’s boot performance.
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SUDO Show Is Back: Business Meets Linux in 2026
January 7th, 2026 | Season 2026 | 13 mins 26 secs
business, enterprise, linux, open source, opensource, software, technology
SUDO Show returns as an independent monthly podcast where Bill, Neal, and Noel explore where business meets Linux, share their open source journeys, and preview new content like webinars, videos, and community-driven topics for 2026.
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72: Non-Artifical Intro to AI
January 9th, 2025 | 41 mins 30 secs
ai, business, enterprise, linux, open source, opensource, software, technology
Bill, Brandon and Neal have a discussion around AI.
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70: Pi À La Code
September 12th, 2024 | 49 mins 40 secs
business, enterprise, linux, open source, opensource, software, technology
Bill, Brandon and Neal discuss the recent IPO of Raspberry PI company.
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69: Cold Confernces
August 14th, 2024 | 43 mins 15 secs
business, enterprise, linux, open source, opensource, software, technology
An episode that should have been published earlier in the year (Blame Brandon). We discuss the fun that Neal had during another conference tour in Europe including FOSDEM, CentOS Connect and others.
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68: Quarterly Watercooler
June 18th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
business, enterprise, linux, open source, opensource, software, technology
Bill, Brandon and Neal stand around the watercooler to talk about the events in OSS over the last few months
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67: Broad Future of Open Source Hypervisors
May 14th, 2024 | 40 mins 36 secs
business, enterprise, linux, open source, opensource, software, technology
Bill, Brandon, and Neal discuss recent events in the virtualization space.
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66: VDI Current and Futures
October 13th, 2023 | 52 mins 33 secs
business, enterprise, linux, open source, opensource, software, technology
Brandon, Bill, and Neal discuss the current state of VDI it's future in a Containerized world.
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65: Summer of Conferences
August 31st, 2023 | 1 hr 9 mins
business, enterprise, linux, open source, opensource, software, technology
Bill and Brandon have a discussion with Neal about the conferences he was able to attend this summer. We also talk about the outcomes of other open-source conferences this from this year.
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64: Let's Talk Backups
August 3rd, 2023 | 54 mins 23 secs
business, enterprise, linux, open source, opensource, software, technology
Brandon, Bill and Neal have a chat about backup strategies and tools.