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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
8Sponsors
19On the bill · sessions
9Companies · 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
Austin RISC-VExhibitor
CentOSExhibitor
DEVSAExhibitor
FedoraExhibitor
Free Software FoundationExhibitor
PostgreSQLExhibitor
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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

An audience of 9 companies, parsed from the program.

Nine companies in attendance.

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
0All threespeak · spons · exh
8Sponsoringsponsor only
1Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority
  • Other roles19100%

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

Most-represented companies
  1. 0145HomeLabSp·S
  2. 02Austin RISC-VSp·E
  3. 03CentOSSp·E
  4. 04CoderSp·G
  5. 05DEVSASp·E
  6. 06FedoraSp·E
  7. 07Free Software FoundationSp·E
  8. 08PostgreSQLSp·E
  9. 09Percona1V
Sponsors by tier
gold1
13% of 8
silver1
13% of 8
exhibitor6
75% of 8

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