DevConf.CZ 2025

Neal Gompa

Neal Gompa is a developer for and contributor to Fedora, CentOS, and openSUSE. Neal focuses primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and software management, and desktop Linux. He's a big believer in upstream first, which has led him all over the open source world. In addition to open source work as a consultant through Velocity Limitless, he is also a co-host on the Sudo Show podcast where he talks about "the business of open source".


Company or affiliation

Velocity Limitless

Job title

Principal Consultant


Sessions

06-12
10:15
80min
Building Images and Containers using Kiwi
Neal Gompa, David Duncan

This workshop teaches you how to use of the popular project kiwi to build images in the same way that we are building them for Fedora and CentOS, but then takes it a step further than just building the base images and guides you through the process we use to build and test those cloud image, including all of the necessary components to run a KDE desktop from a Public cloud provider. We’ll use the CentOS Stream Hyperscale image build process, add the VDI software provided by Amazon and install it as a part of our image build process.

Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Hyperscale Infrastructure
C228 (capacity 24)
06-12
13:15
35min
Porting CentOS Stream to Apple Silicon Macs
Davide Cavalca, Neal Gompa

This talk will discuss how we ported CentOS Stream to Apple Silicon Macs by leveraging the existing work in Fedora Asahi Remix and the Asahi Linux project, together with the tooling provided by the CentOS project, the CentOS Hyperscale SIG and the CentOS Alternative Images SIG. We'll talk about challenges, progress, contribution avenues and close with a quick demo.

Linux Distributions, Operating Systems, and Edge
E105 (capacity 70)