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After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.
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Links:
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- SeaGL 2025 — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WA
- LinuxFest Northwest
- LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for Speakers
- SCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026
- SCALE - Call for Presentations
- Planet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA
- Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals
- LINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away — The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?
- Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toil
- SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness."
- openSUSE on Hugging Face
- ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
- Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
- feat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
- Add options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
- Create variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibe
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- Zed — The editor for what's next
- Cursor: The best way to code with AI
- Nixbook — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
- nixbook/base.nix — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition!
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- Pick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
- Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.