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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D7VK is a new Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7. It relies on DXVK’s Direct3D 9 backend and works with Wine on Linux. The project is open source and actively maintained. The developer behind it is WinterSnowfall, who has also worked on
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Having a reliable help desk solution is a must for any consumer-facing business in today’s digital age. Whether you handle customer emails, support tickets, or live chat, a good help desk system keeps your communication organized and your customers happy. Sadly, many
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Imagine that one of the most prestigious open source software websites starts showing up in top results for “pornhub downloader”. This is actually happening with Flathub, the official web-based app store for Flatpak packages. Here’s a demo I made while risking to
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Humble Bundle has a Linux collection (partner link) running right now that’s kind of hard to ignore. Twenty-two books covering everything from “how do I even install this” to Kubernetes orchestration and ARM64 reverse engineering. All from Apress and Springer; this means
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