November 03, 2025

639: The Mess Machine

1 hour 1 minute

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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SCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026
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Planet Nix '26 — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA
Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals
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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
LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
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!
Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony Events
Pick: duf — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
Pick: cheat.sh — the only cheat sheet you need.