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Texas Linux Festival 2026

Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open source software users and enthusiasts from around Texas. It is a weekend event geared towards individual users and offers sessions on Linux, open-source software, and technology topics for people at home, at work, or in educational/nonprofit settings. The event is org…

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19Speakers
16Sponsors
6Exhibitors
19On the bill · sessions
17Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Texas, in alphabetical order.
Alastair Turner
Community Advocacy · Percona
Alexander Shut
Alex Juarez
Carl Perry
Carl Thompson
Christopher Hobbs
Dave Stokes
David Duncan
Eduardo Robles
Elizabeth K. Joseph
Eric Hendricks
Kevin Purdy
KL Grady
Major Hayden
Sean Thrailkill
Sophia Solomon
Steve Oualline
Thomas Cameron
William Braswell
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
CoderGold
45HomeLabSilver
AlmaLinuxSilver
RackspaceSilver
Red HatSilver
Austin RISC-VExhibitor
Butter, What?!Exhibitor
CentOSExhibitor
ChainguardTrack Sponsor
Commit Your CodeCommunity Sponsor
DEVSAExhibitor
FedoraExhibitor
Free Software FoundationExhibitor
MetaAfter-party Sponsor
PostgreSQLExhibitor
Rocky LinuxExhibitor
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Agenda

Selected from 19 sessions on the bill.
  • TBD

    Attack of the AI Bots!!

  • TBD

    Build a Local RAG Lab with Lima and Ollama

  • TBD

    Cauldron Ops: How a Bored Navy Wife Out-Shipped Enterprise Software

  • TBD

    Confidential Computing: Verifiable and Sealed OS Images

  • TBD

    Effective HA (High Availability) Architecting

  • TBD

    Enterprise Kubernetes at Home: A Homelabber's Guide to OKD

  • TBD

    Experience using Linux to control the Southern California Railroad Museum's signal garden

  • TBD

    From Bash to Burnout: Staying Sane in a 24/7 Tech World

  • TBD

    Growing Open Source in Closed Ecosystems

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 17 companies show up, and 6 bet on three roles at once?

Seventeen companies. six are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
6All threespeak · spons · exh
10Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
1Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Austin RISC-V·CentOS·DEVSA·Fedora·Free Software Foundation·PostgreSQL

Speakers by seniority
  • Other roles19100%

Of 19 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Austin RISC-VSp·EEx
  2. 02CentOSSp·EEx
  3. 03DEVSASp·EEx
  4. 04FedoraSp·EEx
  5. 05Free Software FoundationSp·EEx
  6. 06PostgreSQLSp·EEx
  7. 0745HomeLabSp·S
  8. 08AlmaLinuxSp·S
  9. 09Butter, What?!Sp·E
  10. 10ChainguardSp·T
  11. 11CoderSp·G
  12. 12Commit Your CodeSp·C
  13. 13MetaSp·A
  14. 14RackspaceSp·S
Sponsors by tier
gold1
6% of 16
silver4
25% of 16
after-party sponsor1
6% of 16
community sponsor1
6% of 16
exhibitor8
50% of 16
track sponsor1
6% of 16
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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