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feed.itsfoss.comIn a Setback to VMWare, Tesco is Looking to Migrate to ProxmoxTired of the rising licensing cost of VMWare, Tesco seems to be looking to switch to Proxmox.

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feed.itsfoss.com22 Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking StingrayMake Ubuntu 26.10 yours by following these tweaks and tips.

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feed.itsfoss.comBSD Users Can Now Enjoy Omarchy FlavorDaemonarchy keeps Omarchy’s installer and look, with FreeBSD handling the system underneath.

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feed.itsfoss.comSystemd Creator’s Startup Opens Signups for Private Preview of its Linux SystemAmutable Foundations is a read-only, image-based system where every machine produces signed reports of its own state.

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itsfoss.comBottles Creator Mirko Brombin Wants Microsoft Office on Linux, Not Its ClonesMirko Brombin is working to get Microsoft Office running reliably on Linux. He also thinks the apps cloning Office and Photoshop pixel for pixel cross a line. We talked about both, plus AI agents, Vanilla OS and his new Sinty OS.

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itsfoss.comRAID CalculatorCalculate usable capacity, fault tolerance, and storage efficiency for any RAID or ZFS layout. Also see if there are any risks associated with your rebuilds.

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itsfoss.comThese Projects are Keeping X11 Dream Alive on LinuxThe list covers desktops, X servers, and a Wayland-hosted X11 layer. Basically, projects that are resisting a Waylan-only Linux future.

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itsfoss.comArmSoM Sige7s Puts the RK3588S on a Raspberry Pi-Sized Board, and There's a Compute Module TooThe small SBC brings a 6 TOPS NPU, Wi-Fi 6, a Pi-compatible 40-pin header, and up to 32GB RAM, starting at $153.

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itsfoss.comRed Hat Funded a Report That Found a Quarter of Incoming Pull Requests May Be AI SlopThe Linux Foundation Research survey also found that only 35% of projects have a formal policy permitting AI contributions.

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itsfoss.comThis Newly Proposed Linux Filesystem Can Fix Corrupted DataAimed at hardware exposed to radiation, like satellites, BeamFS can repair data without keeping a second copy.

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itsfoss.comFOSS Weekly #26.43: Kernel 7.3, Non-Linux OS, de-Googled Phone, DuxOS, Podcasts, De-bloating TVs, KDE Dock and MoreA new kernel and a new Ubuntu release are here.

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itsfoss.comTerminal Text Editor: Like VS Code But in Linux TerminalInstead of trying to emulate traditional terminal editors, TTT provides a modern, GUI-like editing experience in the terminal with virtually no configuration required.

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itsfoss.comYou Can Reserve This Small-Factor, De-Googled Phone for $30The Brax Wink is a 4-inch phone that runs BraxOS and has a keyboard that clips onto the back.

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itsfoss.comLocal AI Weekly #6: If You Can Reverse Engineer It, It's Open Source!AI is cloning office suites and it can reverse engineer apps for you. Also, people are fixing their smart TVs with AI. Check out the latest Local AI Weekly newsletter.

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feed.itsfoss.comDankMaterialShell Becomes Dux Shell as Dank Linux Rebrands to Dux LabsThe new name covers the shell, greeter, search, system monitor, calendar, and file manager, all released as part of DMS 2.0.

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feed.itsfoss.comSave Upto 40% on Kubernetes Security Certifications From the Linux FoundationPlanning to get certified? You can get CKS and KCSA for 40% less and 35% off most other Linux Foundation certifications. Offer ends October 23.

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feed.itsfoss.comMicrosoft’s AI Coding Agent Testing Tool Has Been Open-SourcedScope is for teams that maintain SDKs, docs, or MCP servers and want to see where coding agents get stuck.

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feed.itsfoss.comCutefishOS is Back With a Vibe-Coded Desktop That Doesn't Use Qt or GTKThe project says the new desktop has its own Wayland compositor and graphics library.

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feed.itsfoss.comPeople Are Using AI to Get Rid of Smart TV Ads and Make Their TVs FasterAndroid TV owners are pointing Claude Code at their TVs over ADB to strip out ads, telemetry and bloat. Here's how it works and where it can go wrong.

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feed.itsfoss.comLinux Kernel 7.3 Release is Good News For Gamers Short on VRAMA fix for memory freezes lands alongside Zen 6 groundwork, and early Apple M3 support.

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feed.itsfoss.comNot Every Open Source OS Needs to Be Based on Linux, and These Six Aren’tThere are more operating systems than just Linux. Here's a list of a few that are under active development.

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feed.itsfoss.comValve’s Steam Client for Linux Goes 64-bit in Beta and Moves Into a ContainerThey say running Steam in the same kind of container its games use should make the client behave more consistently.

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feed.itsfoss.comUbuntu 26.10 Has Come Out as a Rust-Packed Interim ReleaseIt ships with Linux 7.3, GNOME 51, an improved App Center, and many other upgrades.

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feed.itsfoss.comBig Tech Funded a €115 Billion Warning Against Europe’s Digital IndependenceAmazon, Google, and Meta funded the study through their lobby group CCIA Europe. The EU Commission's own estimate? €18 billion. Six times less.

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feed.itsfoss.comFOSS Weekly #26.42: AI in Kernel, Ubuntu 26.10 Firefox Business, Mint Release Changes and More Linux StuffAs Linus Torvalds embraces AI, it is time that we also pull our socks up and get on with local AI.

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feed.itsfoss.comEpic Games Wants Linux Gamers. It's Rebuilding EAC For FortniteThe anti-cheat software is being prepared for the platform, while a native client is already available as a preview.

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feed.itsfoss.comA Joint Venture of Open Source Proportions! Open Productivity is HereThe vendors behind the openDesk office suite have formed a company to take it beyond public administration and into commercial use.

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feed.itsfoss.comThis Dev Built an Office Suite Because His Wife Kept Going Back to Microsoft OfficeElixirOffice is a new suite based on Euro-Office components and developed using AI.

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feed.itsfoss.comLocal AI Weekly #5: AI Gets a Desk JobAgents are moving into office suites, and Big Tech wants them in all your work apps. Check out the latest Local AI Weekly newsletter.

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feed.itsfoss.comLinux Mint 23 is No More. A New Release Takes its PlaceThe new one, Linux Mint 27 "Adrien," is due Christmas with an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base.

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feed.itsfoss.comThis Rust File Manager Was Designed for Omarchy, but Arch Users Can Run it TooStrata is a new offering that can open folders, preview images, and remember the sort order and icon size from previous sessions.

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feed.itsfoss.comWith an Eye on Europe, Mozilla Launches Firefox Enterprise With Self-Hosted Browser ManagementMozilla has announced Firefox Enterprise, a commercial offering for businesses and government agencies. It combines Firefox with a management console that organizations can run on their own servers.

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feed.itsfoss.comThis New Distro Wants to Achieve What Ubuntu Failed to Do Nearly a Decade AgoCurrently in beta, it pairs Prairie, a new desktop, with a native app suite and an AI assistant.

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feed.itsfoss.comopenEuler Wants Linux to Treat an Entire AI Cluster Like One Single MachineAt Open Source Summit Europe 2026, openEuler laid out how SuperPoD OS and Agentic Scaling change what an operating system is expected to do.

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feed.itsfoss.comRustGIS is a Desktop GIS Tool That Also Runs in a BrowserThe Apache-2.0 licensed app is written in Rust and includes an AI Assistant that can run commands on your map.

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feed.itsfoss.comWith 10.0 Release, ONLYOFFICE Goes All in on AI, Making it the Most Modern Office Choice for Team CollaborationThere are apps for workflows and then every editor gets AI tools and new upgrades of its own in the latest release of ONLYOFFICE.

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feed.itsfoss.comLinus Torvalds Says He Likes Using AI, While His New Kernel Branch Credits Claude CodeHis eight-patch series takes advantage of AI assistance to cut the extra work the kernel does when many threads read the same file.

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feed.itsfoss.comopenEuler is Revamping the Development Experience of the Open Source Community With an AI ToolchainAI now reviews code and fixes CVEs in the community's pipelines, DevStation moves to a 2-week update cycle, and openEuler is layering an agent-native OS on top.

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feed.itsfoss.comLinux May Get a New Home for AI Agent SkillsA proposed agents directory would hold skills and other resources for coding assistants, starting with one that finds the commit behind a bug.

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feed.itsfoss.comBentoPDF Handles PDFs Locally, So You Don’t Have to Upload Them to WebsitesThis open source, browser-based PDF toolkit is free to use and ships with a surprisingly long list of tools.

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feed.itsfoss.comFOSS Weekly #26.41: Open Source Trouble, More Rust in Ubuntu, Adobe Photoshop's Linux Clone, Rich CLI Tool and MoreOpen Source projects are facing infrastructure trouble.

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feed.itsfoss.comGentoo Needs Your Help! Several Sponsors Have Pulled OutThey will accept VMs, physical servers, rack space, donated machines, or funds for hosting.

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feed.itsfoss.comVinix is Not a Linux Distro, But it Can Run Games, Docker, and QEMUThe project has been around since 2021, runs its own kernel, and is written in V.

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feed.itsfoss.comGoogle Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty ProgramSubmitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank AI for that.

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feed.itsfoss.comRed Hat's Lightwell Doesn't Wait for Upstream Maintainers to ActA status update shows it clearing 400 vulnerabilities from Java libraries and a key service now being generally available.

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feed.itsfoss.comSiemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already LiveAnother reminder of why open source saves software from being lost forever.

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feed.itsfoss.comUbuntu 26.10 Will Have a Rust-based GnuPG ReplacementThe Rust-based OpenPGP tool lands in Ubuntu 26.10's main archive, with sq and sqv available alongside gpg and gpgv.

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feed.itsfoss.comORICO X50 Review: A Sleek Thunderbolt 5 SSD EnclosureA slim, silver NVMe enclosure that turns your spare SSD into fast external storage. Excellent if you have Thunderbolt 5 on your machine.

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feed.itsfoss.comDigitalOcean Quietly Ends Open Source Credits ProgramSome project maintainers have received emails that they will no longer get any more free credits from Digital Ocean.

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feed.itsfoss.comWe View Consumer Data as Toxic WasteObscura VPN splits your identity from your browsing across two independent companies so neither can see both. Founder Carl Dong on trust, QUIC, reproducible builds, and why the no-logs promise stopped being enough.