Another edition of LinuxDays took place in Prague last weekend – the country’s largest Linux event drawing more than 1200 attendees and as every yearm we had a Fedora booth there – this time we also representing CentOS.

I was really glad that Tomáš Hrčka helped me staff the booth. I’m focused on the desktop part of Fedora and don’t follow the rest of the project in such detail. As a member of FESCo and Fedora infra team he has a great overview of what is going on in the project and our knowledge complemented each other very well when answering visitors’ questions. I’d also like to thank Adellaide Mikova who helped us tremendously despite not being a technical person.

This year I took our heavy 4K HDR display and showcased HDR support in Fedora Linux whose implementation was a multi-year effort for our team. I played HDR videos in two different video players (one that supports HDR and one that doesn’t), so that people could see a difference, and explained what needed to be implemented to make it work.

Another highlight of our booth were the laptops that run Fedora exceptionally well: Slimbook and especially Framework Laptop. Visitors were checking them out and we spoke about how the Fedora community works with the vendors to make sure Fedora Linux runs flawlessly on their laptops.

We also got a lot of questions about CentOS. We met quite a few people who were surprised that CentOS still exists. We explained to them that it lives on in the form of CentOS Stream and tried to dispel some of common misconceptions surrounding it.

Exhausting as it is, I really enjoy going to LinuxDays, but it’s also a great opportunity to explain things and get direct feedback from the community.