Troy Dawson
Senior Software Engineer / Hawaiian Shirt Artisan
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Troy Dawson was one of the original Scientific Linux developers. He now works for Red Hat on the Emerging RHEL team.
He is also a Hawaiian Shirt Artisan and founded Casual Penguins to develop and sell Hawaiian Shirts with Casual Tux on them.
A Plethora of Desktops
There are an incredible amount of desktops available to Linux users. Join Troy Dawson as we explore the wonderful plethora of Linux desktops. There isn't time for Troy to show them all, so he will be limiting himself to those in Fedora Linux. Although Fedora doesn't have all the desktops, it has most of them.
How to Open Source a Shirt 2025
You probably know how to open source software. You might have heard of open sourcing hardware and computers. But how do you Open Source a Shirt?
Join Troy Dawson, founder of Casual Penguins, for a short, but fun tale of how he Open Sourced his Casual Penguins Hawaiian Shirts.
Opening the RHEL Buildsystem
Each Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) release used to be built in secret. Dates, packages and procedures were all hidden behind Non-Discosure Agreements (NDAs). For RHEL 9, the Emerging RHEL team was given the instructions to "Make it Public".
This is the story of how we took a completely closed development process and made it more open than anyone imagined.
How to Open Source a Shirt
You probably know how to open source software. You might have heard of open sourcing hardware and computers. But how do you Open Source a Shirt?
Join Troy Dawson, founder of Casual Penguins, for a short, but fun tale of how he Open Sourced his Casual Penguins Hawaiian Shirts.
LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Sessionize Event
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