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Universal Blue & System Initiative

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  1. Tracks Universal Blue as an image-based Fedora desktop with rollbacks.
  2. Shows how Just files install Flatpaks, Distrobox, Nix, and DevBox tooling.
  3. Uses System Initiative and Tilt to model AWS resources on a visual canvas.

Brian shows his daily-driver Bluefin desktop, a Universal Blue image with rpm-ostree rollbacks, Distrobox, Nix and Flatpak baked in. David then demos System Initiative orchestrated via Tilt, dragging AWS resources onto a canvas to model and deploy an EC2 stack live.

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