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Texas Linux Festival 2026

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Texas Linux Festival 2026 runs Nov 6–7, 2026 in Austin, United States. It is an Open Source conference. It starts in 2 days. ConferenceGrid lists 19 speakers, 18 sponsors, 8 exhibitors and 19 sessions so far.

Lineup updated Oct 12, 2026 · dates verified Jun 14, 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
18Sponsors
8Exhibitors
19Sessions
19Companies · in total

Agenda

Selected from 19 sessions.

  • TBD

    Attack of the AI Bots!!

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    Build a Local RAG Lab with Lima and Ollama

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

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    Confidential Computing: Verifiable and Sealed OS Images

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    Effective HA (High Availability) Architecting

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

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

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

  • TBD

    Growing Open Source in Closed Ecosystems

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

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

CoderGold
45HomeLabSilver
AlmaLinuxSilver
elasticSilver
RackspaceSilver
Red HatSilver
Austin RISC-VExhibitor
Butter, What?!Exhibitor
CentOSExhibitor
ChainguardTrack Sponsor
Commit Your CodeCommunity Sponsor
DEVSAExhibitor
FedoraExhibitor
Free Software FoundationExhibitor
Jupiter BroadcastingMedia & Swag
MetaAfter-party Sponsor
PostgreSQLExhibitor
Rocky LinuxExhibitor

Quick answers

When is Texas Linux Festival 2026?
Texas Linux Festival 2026 runs Nov 6–7, 2026 in Austin, United States.
Where is Texas Linux Festival 2026 held?
Texas Linux Festival 2026 is held in Austin, United States.
Who is speaking at Texas Linux Festival 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 19 speakers, including Alastair Turner (Community Advocacy, Percona), Alexander Shut and Alex Juarez.
Who sponsors Texas Linux Festival 2026?
ConferenceGrid lists 18 sponsors, including Coder, 45HomeLab, AlmaLinux, elastic and Rackspace.
Company intelligence

What does it mean when 19 companies show up, and 8 bet on three roles at once?

Nineteen companies. eight 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
8All threespeak · spons · exh
10Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
1Speakingspeaker only

In all three roles

Austin RISC-V·Butter, What?!·CentOS·DEVSA·Fedora·Free Software Foundation·PostgreSQL·Rocky Linux

Speakers by seniority
  • Other roles19100%

Of 19 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
1Austin RISC-VSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
2Butter, What?!Sponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
3CentOSSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
4DEVSASponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
5FedoraSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
6Free Software FoundationSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
7PostgreSQLSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
8Rocky LinuxSponsor · ExhibitorExhibitor-
945HomeLabSponsor · Silver-
10AlmaLinuxSponsor · Silver-
11ChainguardSponsor · Track Sponsor-
12CoderSponsor · Gold-
13Commit Your CodeSponsor · Community Sponsor-
14ElasticSponsor · Silver-
Sponsors by tier
gold1
6% of 18
silver5
28% of 18
community sponsor1
6% of 18
exhibitor8
44% of 18
after-party sponsor1
6% of 18
media & swag1
6% of 18
track sponsor1
6% of 18
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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