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After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.
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Links:
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
- SCaLE 23x — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference.
- Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix room
- SCaLE 23x - YouTube — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.
- LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
- Flox.dev
- Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub — Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle.
- Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
- Cindy Cohn | SCALE
- noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk — A Slidev presentation about the "dark arts" of ELF surgery and Nix, built entirely with Nix. This talk explores how patchelf and a deep understanding of the Executable and Linkable Format can make binaries portable in both directions: bringing foreign tools into NixOS, and taking Nix-built artifacts out to the rest of the world.
- DeepComputing — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V
- Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io
- Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas
- EFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE
- Cindy Cohn - SCaLE — Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all the people of the world.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world
- llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++
- mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)
- The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative
- Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA. License: GPL-3
- Pick: qmd — mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, meeting notes, whatever. Tracking current sota approaches while being all local. License: MIT
- Pick: mtr — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2
- MTR - Welcome Home Brent