If you’re like me, you probably grew up with the classic Linux command-line tools such as ls, cat, du. These commands have carried me through countless scripts and late-night debugging sessions. Here’s the thing. While these tools do their job, they can
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Firefox has been pushing AI features for a while now. Over the past year, they’ve added AI chatbots in the sidebar, automatic alt text generation, and AI-enhanced tab grouping. It is basically their way of keeping up with Chrome and Edge, both
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Ubuntu is Canonical’s flagship Linux distribution that powers a significant portion of the information technology infrastructure today. It has two major versions: an interim release that comes with nine months of support and a long-term support release that comes with five years
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FFmpeg maintainers have publicly criticized Google after its AI tool reported a security bug in code for a 1995 video game. The maintainers called the finding “CVE slop” and questioned whether trillion-dollar corporations should use AI to find security issues in volunteer
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Nitrux is a Debian-based Linux distribution that has always stood out for its bold design choices. It even made our list of the most beautiful Linux distributions. Earlier this year, the project made a significant announcement. They discontinued its custom NX Desktop
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Here is the news. It’s FOSS News (news.itsfoss.com) doesn’t exist anymore, at least not as a separate entity. All news articles are now located under the main website: https://itsfoss.com/news/ I merged the two portals into one. Now, you just have to log
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The OpenSearch Software Foundation is a vendor-neutral organization under the Linux Foundation that hosts the OpenSearch Project. It recently appointed a new Executive Director, and the project itself has already seen over 1 billion software downloads since launch. If you didn’t know,
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The Linux ecosystem is facing increasing pressure from threat actors, who are getting more clever day-by-day, threatening critical infrastructure worldwide. Servers powering essential services, industrial control systems, and enterprise networks all rely on Linux, and these attackers know it. What was once
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Ubuntu’s move to Rust-based system utilities has hit some bumps. Earlier, a bug in the Rust-based date command broke automatic updates. The command returned current time instead of file modification timestamps, causing Ubuntu 25.10 systems to stop automatically checking for software updates.
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In my last column, Ownership is an illusion, unless you self-host, I encouraged readers to go down the self-hosting path. My thesis was simple: ownership of digital assets (movies, music, games, books, software) is an illusion, and that the only way to
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