I’m Eric “IT Guy” Hendricks, a Technical Product Marketer who turns open source, Linux, and infrastructure work into stories people actually understand.
Joined April 2025
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I'm giving a talk today at #SELF2026! Ever wanted to play #DungeonsAndDragons? Come by my talk and learn how Table Top Role Playing games work 🎲
#DnD #TTRPG #SouthEastLinuxFest
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Day 2 of #SELinuxFest has kicked off: You should stop by the #RockyLinux booth and grab a Rocky #Linux tshirt!
Interested in winning a #RaspberryPi ? Come by the booth at 4:45ET with a 60 second pitch of what you'd use Rocky Linux to build! #homelab #self #self2026
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Jun 12
It's SELF day 1 and I'm here for it!
Two talks, good people, and the kind of hallway conversations you can't get anywhere else.
If you're at SouthEast Linux Fest today come find me. Let's connect.
#SELF #SouthEastLinuxFest #Linux #OpenSource #Community
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Jun 11
Tired of 16-step READMEs just to get a dev environment running?
Walking through @floxdevelopment: reproducible environments built on Nix. One command, works everywhere.
youtube.com/live/wvZYVXcKP0E
#Nix #OpenSource #Linux
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Jun 11
SSH is how you get things done remotely. Know it cold.
Connect to a remote host: ssh user@hostname
Copy files securely: scp file.txt user@hostname:/path/
Generate SSH keys: ssh-keygen -t ed25519
Passwords are fine. Keys are better. Use keys.
#Linux #SysAdmin #SSH #TechTipThursday
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Jun 10
"Works on my machine" is not a deployment strategy.
Walking through @coderhq, self-hosted cloud dev environments defined as code, consistent every time. Templates, editor support, and yes, AI agent support built in.
🎬 youtube.com/live/MibX61-a85o
#Coder #OpenSource #Dev #Homelab
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Jun 10
"No" is a complete sentence.
Every yes to something that doesn't matter is a no to something that does. Your time and energy are finite. Protect them like you protect your production environment.
#Productivity #WorkLifeBalance #Focus #DeepWork
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Live RIGHT NOW on The IT Guy Show: Live Ops 009.
We're walking through @xcpng and Xen Orchestra, the open source virtualization stack from @vatesfr.
Watch now: youtube.com/live/Uz04d9Z-Itg…
#Linux #OpenSource #Virtualization #Homelab #XCPng #VMware #SysAdmin #ITOps
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Heading to SouthEast Linux Fest this weekend and I'm giving two talks.
If you're going to be there, come find me. Always down to talk Linux, open source, or whatever's on your mind.
#SELF #SouthEastLinuxFest #Linux #OpenSource #Community
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Rocky Linux is solid. But what do you actually get when you need commercial guarantees behind it? I'm breaking down RLC Pro and the full RLC product family!
🎬 youtube.com/live/akg-KgC9H0w
#Linux #RockyLinux #EnterpriseLinux #OpenSource #HPC #SysAdmin
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Shoutout to the unpaid open source devs holding everything together.
You know who you are. We owe you more than a GitHub star.
#OpenSource #Linux #SysAdmin #MemeMonday
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If you're in the middle of a job search right now, I see you. The silence. The interviews that went nowhere. The rejections with no reason.
It's a grind. Keep showing up.
You've got this. 💪
#JobSearch #OpenToWork #CareerGrowth
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#TechTipThursday
Check who's logged in: who
Open connections: ss -tulnp
Running services: systemctl list-units --type=service --state=running
If you can't explain why a service is running, that's your homework.
#Linux #SysAdmin #Security
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The mouse is slowing you down and you don't notice anymore:
Win/Cmd L: lock screen
Alt Tab: stop touching the taskbar
Ctrl Shift T: reopen that closed tab
Ctrl Z / Y: undo and redo everything
Pick two. Practice for a week. You won't go back.
#Productivity #WorkSmarter
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A few weeks in and the search is moving...
Technical Product Marketing Manger with a #sysadmin background. Former #RedHat and #GitLab. #OpenSource and enterprise #infra is my wheelhouse.
If you know someone, I'd appreciate the intro. 🙏
#OpenToWork #ProductMarketing #Linux
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May 28
Here’s the sad truth about tech hiring: So much focus is put on the job history and not enough on the soft skills. Learning a new tech stack is EASY! Learning how to communicate, use time wisely, being a good employee…that isn’t (really) teachable. #opentowork #tech
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May 26
Alas, my contract is coming to a close in just a few weeks. Getting to work with an #opensource community as my day job and to continue as a #linux product marketer has been amazing.
However, all good things, you know? That said, I am once again #opentowork #devrel
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May 22
This is an amazing effort to improve the security posture of #RockyLinux. If you have some hardware, give this a try!
Our friends over at the #RESF are putting together a test day for secure boot! Check it out:
CALL FOR TESTING: The new boot shim in Rocky 9.8 and 10.2 is signed with multiple certificates to handle changes in Secure Boot. This must be tested on a variety of physical hardware to ensure there are no regressions.
Follow the instructions at lnkd.in/grgrGBRU
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