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.