# Slop to Slap

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/657/
> After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced that the next phase of Linux is already taking shape.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 657
- Date: 2026-03-08
- Hosts: brent, chris, wes
- Guests: carl-perry, cindy-cohn, graham-christensen, jason-spisak, jonas-chevalier, kelsey-hightower, ron-efroni, yuning-liang
- Duration: 01:24:15
- Audio: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/cb47d835-86bb-4fe0-99ea-18fa223bdccd.mp3


Transcripts: [text/vtt](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/f6c50b1b-d4e4-420e-919e-f2435fb85ab3.vtt) [application/x-subrip](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/f6c50b1b-d4e4-420e-919e-f2435fb85ab3.srt)


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### Episode Links

* [💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike](https://strike.me/ "💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike")
* [📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM](https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov "📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM")
* [PlanetNix 2026](https://planetnix.com/ "PlanetNix 2026") — Where Nix Builders Come Together
* [SCaLE 23x](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x "SCaLE 23x") — SCALE is North America's largest community-run open source conference.
* [Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix room](https://matrix.to/#/#scale:jupiterbroadcasting.com "Jupiter Broadcasting's SCaLE Matrix room")
* [SCaLE 23x - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh1QjGnfC2eSvaI_246vzl8howJNYUa4s "SCaLE 23x - YouTube") — SCaLE 23x live streams, talks, and more.
* [LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root](https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ "LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root") — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
* [Flox.dev](https://flox.dev/ "Flox.dev")
* [Flox: Developer environments you can take with you - GitHub](https://github.com/flox/flox "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](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/keynote-privacys-defender-fighting-digital-surveillance-over-thirty-years "Keynote: Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE")
* [Cindy Cohn | SCALE](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/speaker/cindy-cohn "Cindy Cohn | SCALE")
* [noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk](https://github.com/noblepayne/nix-anywhere-else-talk "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](https://deepcomputing.io/ "DeepComputing") — Advancing the adoption and implementation of RISC-V
* [Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io](https://www.anyshift.io/authors/roxane-fischer "Roxane Fischer - Anyshift.io")
* [Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas](https://determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-future/ "Determinate is the future of Nix today: Wasm, provenance, and flake schemas")
* [EFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/keynote-privacys-defender-fighting-digital-surveillance-over-thirty-years "EFF Privacy’s Defender - Fighting Digital Surveillance for over Thirty Years | SCALE")
* [Cindy Cohn - SCaLE](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/speaker/cindy-cohn "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](https://www.eff.org/ "Electronic Frontier Foundation - Defending your rights in the digital world")
* [llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp "llama.cpp: LLM inference in C/C++")
* [mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor](https://github.com/mangowm/mango "mangowm - Mango Wayland Compositor") — Practical and powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)
* [The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative](https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition "The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 - Open Source Initiative")
* [Pick: sone](https://github.com/lullabyX/sone "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](https://github.com/tobi/qmd "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](https://github.com/traviscross/mtr "Pick: mtr") — Combines the functionality of 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single network diagnostic tool. License: GPL-2
* [MTR - Welcome Home Brent](https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ "MTR - Welcome Home Brent")