Noel Miller
Noel Miller is a Systems Administrator, Technical Account Manager at Red Hat, and a Core Contributor at Universal Blue.
He has been working in IT for a little over 10 years, with most of his career being focused on Small and Medium Size businesses. For his day job, he works at Red Hat as a Technical Account Manager with a focus on Ansible.
He is a Core Contributor at Universal Blue. Universal Blue builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images (including Bazzite) using Fedora Atomic Desktop's support for OCI/Docker containers.
Outside of his IT endeavors, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing video games, listening to heavy metal music, and playing guitar.
For more information, please visit: https://noelmiller.dev/pages/about
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What is Bazzite?
Bazzite is an open source custom operating system image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices - including your favorite handheld. It is built with Cloud Native Technology through the use of OCI containers and GitHub Runners.
It is built for Linux newcomers and enthusiasts to provide the best user friendly experience for playing your favorite video games.
Topics
- What is Bazzite?
- Bazzite Features
- Why Bazzite uses Fedora Atomic OCI Images
- Impacts of Bazzite on the gaming space
- Discuss paths for upstream contribution from Bazzite to Fedora
- Discuss reviving the Fedora Gaming SIG to have a better base for projects like Bazzite
- Assert why Gamers are a good audience to capture for Fedora
- Future Plans for the Project
- SystemD Systems Extensions
- Bazzite-DX
- ZSTD:Chunked Images
Themes
Welcoming New Voices: Pathways for Fedora Contributors
- Bazzite creates a path for new Fedora contributors by accessing a younger audience interested in gaming and technology
- Many of Bazzite’s contributors have never contributed to Linux before
Driving Innovation: Fedora and Emerging Technologies
- Bazzite is built on Fedora bootable containers and has been driving innovation in this space for several years.
- Bazzite has the desire to drive these innovations that it has created directly into Fedora