Scott McCarty
At Red Hat, Scott McCarty is a Global Senior Principal Product Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, arguably the largest open source software business in the world. Focus areas include cloud, containers, workload expansion, and automation. Working closely with customers, partners, engineering teams, sales, marketing, other product teams, and even in the community, he combines personal experience with customer and partner feedback to enhance and tailor strategic capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Session
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 11 is currently in its planning phase, and for the first time, we are pulling back the curtain to share our "60% plan" early in the cycle. This session explores a core architectural shift to the Constructible OS—a vision developed through deep, unprecedented collaboration between the RHEL 11 core team and the Fedora/CentOS communities.
As hardware landscapes fracture and specialized workloads like AI and Edge demand more flexibility—ranging from ARM v9 and RISC-V to advanced Intel ISA levels (x86-64-v3/v4)—RHEL is evolving from a static distribution into a dynamic, modular platform. We will discuss how the RHEL Business Unit (BU) is treating Fedora ELN and CentOS Stream as the primary, transparent engines for Major and Minor releases. Attendees will learn how the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Leaders (FRCL, pronounced freckle) initiative is bridging the gap between internal engineering requirements and public community trackers, allowing for a truly shared development lifecycle.