Neal Gompa has hosted 22 Episodes.
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77: The Promotion Paradox | SUDO Show 77
June 9th, 2026 | 1 hr 3 mins
ai in management, business, career development, company culture, devops leadership, dirk hohndel, engineering management, enterprise, ic vs management track, imposter syndrome, individual contributor, leadership skills, linus torvalds, linux, linux careers, maintainer burnout, management failures, management metrics, micromanagement, open source, open source maintainer, open source summit north america, opensource, peopleware, peter principle, principal engineer, software, staff engineer, sudo show, sudo solutions, sysadmin to manager, team lead, tech careers, technology, the promotion paradox
SUDO Show 77, “The Promotion Paradox,” is all about what happens when the best nerd in the room gets handed a calendar full of 1:1s, budgets, and “peopleware” instead of terminals and tickets. Bill, Neal, and Noel swap stories about micromanagers, open office nightmares, open source maintainers, and why learning to lead humans is way harder—and ultimately more rewarding—than just being the fastest person at fixing servers.
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76: ABCs of CVEs | SUDO Show 76
May 14th, 2026 | 51 mins 43 secs
abcs of cves, ai and security, business, claude, copy.fail, cve, cvss, devops, dirty frag, disclosure, embargo, enterprise, fedora, fedora workstation, foreman, framework 13 pro, immutability, linux, linux distros, linux kernel, mistral, new grads in security, open source, opensource, pack2theroot, packagekit, patching best practices, responsible disclosure, risk management, security, software, sudo show, sysadmin, technology, uyuni, vulnerabilities, zero cve
SUDO Show 76, “ABCs of CVEs,” walks through how modern Linux vulnerabilities are discovered, disclosed, and patched—from AI‑assisted finds like Pack2TheRoot and copy.fail to Dirty Frag’s embargo drama. Bill, Neal, and Brandon then dig into real‑world patching practices, tools like Foreman and Uyuni, and how to interpret CVSS scores and risk without panicking.
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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.