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Nitrux – Powered by Linux, KDE Plasma 5, Qt and Nomad Desktop
- Koshkin 8y ago> Error estableciendo una conexión con la base de datos
- phoe-krk 8y ago> la base de datos I smirked while reading that. A base of data.
- johnchristopher 8y agoYeah, well. Here's the french one: 'la base de données".
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- Koshkin 8y agoFrom the Latin ‘data’, the plural of ‘datum’, i.e. “given”.
- Theizestooke 8y agoIt's Ubuntu-based, with some modified KDE desktop.
- codetrotter 8y agoSpeaking of Ubuntu-based distros with KDE desktop, I recently found a distro called "KDE Neon". https://neon.kde.org/ https://neon.kde.org/ Well, actually, they themselves describe KDE Neon as "not quite a distro". > Is it a distro? > Not quite, it's a package archive with the latest KDE software on top of a stable base. While we have installable images, unlike full Linux distributions we're only interested in KDE software. https://neon.kde.org/faq https://neon.kde.org/faq Anyway, I recently switched my laptop over to KDE Neon after my faithful FreeBSD install broke. I have previously used KDE-based desktops on Fedora and on openSUSE. (And a lot of other DEs and distros over the years but the point was to speak about KDE.) For my laptop I have been very satisfied with KDE Neon. Still debating whether or not to run it on my desktop.
- Klover 8y agoThanks. Scrolled through the whole page to see if it’s a new distribution with interesting new tech, or just a desktop spin of something. Who knows, maybe they enabled some power management or browser hardware acceleration out of the box, which would make it immediately better than most attempts at a Linux general purpose OS. I saw no mention of that, only desktop environment features.. Speaking of which: I’m not too well versed on the state, but isn’t chromeos just a Linux browser with power management and hardware accelerated browsing? Ubuntu and fedora and as far as I’m aware none of the traditional distributions do that, instead they make desktop environments all day. Maybe it’s time for some market analysis?
- johnchristopher 8y agoDitto for the torrent link. Can't download the thing because the torrent file is behind a crashed database. We have magnet links for a reason, goddamit. /rant
- moystard 8y agoIt looks like their servers are struggling with the current load. If you are curious about Nitrux: Nitrux is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu suitable for laptops and desktop computers. Nitrux provides all the benefits of the Ubuntu operating system combined with a focus on portable, redistributable application formats like AppImages. Nitrux uses the LTS branch of Ubuntu as a basis using only the core system and then slowly building up to ensure a clean user experience. Nitrux is suitable for newcomers to Linux as well as *nix experienced users. Nitrux uses KDE Plasma 5 and KDE Applications; we also use our in-house software suite Nomad Desktop adding to the user experience. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_rEvBLiKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_rEvBLiKI
- agumonkey 8y agologo looks like bing
- Gonzih 8y agoCached version here https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zGnFLuq9qbEJ:https://nxos.org/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zGnFLu...
- majewsky 8y agoJust what the world needs... Another Linux distribution. Seriously though, you need a lot more to sell me on a new distribution than "Ubuntu, but with AppImages". That's actually a large part of the problem of FOSS in general: We focus on the technical underpinnings rather than on the problems that we intend to solve. If the creators of this distribution want to address specific issues of the Linux desktop experience, they should do a better job communicating that, not least to attract contributors.
- nine_k 8y agoSo, what is the problem we intend to solve here? Can anyone ELI5? (Or at least ELIPhD?)
- de_watcher 8y agoThe actual Ubuntu has already tried to move to the AppImage-like package management: it's when you put all dependencies of the program into the package. These "Click" packages were used for the UbuntuPhone applications. There were also "Snap" packages for more server-oriented use cases. The whole deal is about the software developers who are having hard time managing the dependencies. Because they've got to update the code all the time. Especially bad for the proprietary ship-once-and-forget software. Ubuntu has not changed the package format. To be used, it has to be tested. To be tested, it has to be used.
- colechristensen 8y agoIt's time for new package management. One that isn't snapshot images (docker, bundled java/ruby/libraries) One that takes testing and integration seriously One that takes security seriously One that uses c-groups like they were intended One that allows multiple versions There are a lot of things that could come together for a new style and generation of package manager, but to do it right you would have to manage a whole lot of things
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- StreamBright 8y agoError estableciendo una conexión con la base de datos This is great. I guess they need a landing page that does not use SQL server to render.
- ComputerGuru 8y agoOr just fix whatever query hog system they’re using. Nothing wrong with an LP that hits the DB. Just don’t f it up.
- reacharavindh 8y agoHopefully it does not become a thing like how cryptocurrencies are + everyone wants their own coin. There are already enough distributions of Linux. What does this bring that KDE neon, Kubuntu, or even plain old Ubuntu ´KDE desktop not do already? To be honest, I appreciate attempts like VoidLinux that tries something genuine and brings enough difference to warrant its existence and support, but this really feels like some consumer wanting their own named distribution of what already exists.
- danieldk 8y agoFor someone who does not know Void Linux, what does it bring that is genuinely new? From the webpage's description, it looks like Arch with a different init system. To me e.g. Fedora's Team Silverblue and NixOS seem genuinely different, since they completely rethink how installations and upgrades are done.
- reacharavindh 8y agoFrom what little I have played with Void Linux so far, * Void Linux is minimal by default, and comes without Systemd * It can be had with Musl instead of Glibc as a lighter weight alternative * Option of binary packages or source pages that you can compile yourself with -native * LibreSSL by default. Not saying that all of the above are how all Linux distributions should be, but the lack of Systemd already hooked me in to try it out.
- brobdingnagians 8y agoIIRC it is by some BSD-style people who took some of the design ideas from BSD. LibreSSL is a huge plus for me in terms of security, and the more I learn about systemd the happier I am to get away from it. Didn't know about Musl, but that's nice too [ http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html ]
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- myWindoonn 8y agoHow interesting that their URL is nearly, but not quite, nixos.org.
- masklinn 8y agoYeah interesting is not the word I'd have used.
- village-idiot 8y agoSomewhat fraudulent? Purposefully misleading?
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- akvadrako 8y agoIt also sounds like a thin client for NX (https://www.nomachine.com https://www.nomachine.com).
- JdeBP 8y agoYou may also find it interesting that someone just re-submitted that to Hacker News. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18363522 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18363522
- aidenn0 8y agoI also assume they paid money for that domain, since 4 letter domains tend to be already taken.
- ahriman 8y agoEspecially when nitruxos.org is available
- undersuit 8y agoThey refer to themselves and some of their software as NX multiple times. Nitrux OS is the full name of NXOS, just like RedHat Enterprise Linux is for RHEL.
- tapoxi 8y agoSee also, Fedora Silverblue: https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/ https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/ Uses rpm-ostree for atomic updates with desktop applications run in Flatpak containers and development done in VMs or Docker/OCI images.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoI like the idea of a distribution where AppImages are the first class way of adding applications, but I was pretty disappointed in Nitrux. It's all the little things, like apparently not having a good way to display AppImage icons, and how hovering over the dock icons doesn't tell you what the hell they are. Why can't I point a widget at a directory of AppImages and get a custom menu? etc. Christ, they might have even fixed some of this since I last used it, but I can't tell because they don't offer an ISO you can dump on a USB to try out "...this means that the ONLY way to use Nitrux is deploying the ISO image using znx. We DO NOT recommend that you flash the ISO raw to a storage device AT ALL, please use znx." [0] Once again, a fancy website and lots of ambitious words built around a shoddily implemented half-baked idea. [0] https://nxos.org/en/compendium/#deploying-nitrux https://nxos.org/en/compendium/#deploying-nitrux
- newjersey 8y agoLooks like database connection issues... Archived at https://archive.is/olI6j https://archive.is/olI6j
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y agoNothing at all to do with the database issues, the site works fine for me and I grabbed the ISO, it just doesn't actually work unless you use znx, as stated on the site.
- natex 8y agoI thought I'd seen that logo before. https://www.bing.com https://www.bing.com
- edoo 8y agoSo it sounds like Ubuntu with different default GUI apps. I would almost consider recommending something like that for brand new users but it would have to be rather established. If you have the slightest experience installing packages and editing the occasional config file you can switch your experience to match this fairly easily. Vanilla Ubuntu tends to include the mid range GUI, the one that performs OK and doesn't look too bad. Plasma should likely be the default unless you know you want a lighter weight GUI. Unity and GNOME just don't cut it for serious multiple monitor usage. I always find myself on Plasma or xfce4. One example is in Ubuntu 18.04 it is impossible to move the top taskbar off your 'primary' monitor. That is so ridiculous.
- pbrb 8y agoI recently bout a new laptop (X1C6) and dual boot ubuntu 18.04, running the kde plasma desktop. It's the first truly out of the box dual boot Linux setup I've ever used that is actually really good. The one problem I have is that the laptop won't sleep automatically (it's an easy fix, but I'm lazily just clicking the suspend button manually if I unplug and take the laptop with me without shutting it off). The only reason I even installed plasma was because the scaling on gnome looked like crap and I didn't want to fiddle with it. tldr; Ubuntu + Plasma is a great setup.
- coleifer 8y agoWhat's the catch? Why all the flashy marketing juju? Why would someone put so much time into making the site all..."designed"? And this: > "Nitrux is made with <3 by people like you" What the fuck? This is some kenneth reitz-level pandering.
- justwalt 8y agoCould you explain the last line in your comment for someone who isn’t familiar with Ken Reitz?
- toyg 8y agoKenneth Reitz is the author of Python library Requests. After Requests exploded in popularity, he developed a somewhat unique approach to marketing his libraries, to the point where anything he promotes nowadays becomes controversial (i.e. “is it good because it is good, or because Kenneth writes about it all-cute-y?”).
- RidingPegasus 8y agoWhat a strange sentiment. I've never once heard anyone call Reitz controversial. I think the widespread usage of his libraries speaks for itself as to whether they are "good", especially considering they have standard library equivalents. Am a big fan of Arrow, it's far better than DateTime.
- toyg 8y agoWell, now you’ve seen two in a single thread. Some of what Kenneth builds is very good, some less so. Sometimes he just pulls annoying stunts that are disrespectful of the community at large, like with pipenv. With all that “Human” marketing, he has burnt quite a bit of the goodwill accumulated with Requests, but he’s also built a critical mass of developers who will basically adopt anything he makes regardless of actual merits; which in turn generates backlash. The two phenomenons tend to feed on each other.
- jchw 8y agoThis thing is getting panned hard right now on HN, but I think it looks cool. I don't really like AppImage too much, nor Snaps or Flatpak, though. It's a terrible workaround for open source OSes not being able to provide a stable ABI. The UX is a bit nicer, though. Still, a distro with nice, modern UX is welcome. I also enjoyed Manjaro for a while.
- twblalock 8y ago> I don't really like AppImage too much, nor Snaps or Flatpak, though. It's a terrible workaround for open source OSes not being able to provide a stable ABI. It's a lot more than that. The point is that applications should be self-contained and should not depend on the host operating system, and can be installed and run in isolation without affecting each other unless you want them to. Hopefully it will one day mean that app developers can make just one package that can be installed on all Linux distributions.
- jchw 8y agoThat's a different issue imo. Isolation is one thing. We can accomplish that with kernel primitives we have today. Yeah, a distribution mechanism like snaps would be needed. But snaps are simply doing too much. Like, I should be able to download and run software like I can on Windows and to a lesser extent, Android. The deployment mechanism and the sandbox and the ABI issues all need to be solved separately. Boxing an entire distro per each app is Not necessary for isolation, Not good for security, and generally not a good solution to the ABI issue that prompted it. If it weren't for ABI stability problems, there would be no issue with still having the isolation of snaps while being able to update components of the base system like libssl. On a side note, I really dont like how these things clutter the shit out of mounts. Like, I appreciate that they are doing so for isolation, but the side effect is that merely having an app installed adds n mounts? That seems unsustainable.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago> It's a terrible workaround for open source OSes not being able to provide a stable ABI. Actually AppImage would work significantly better if there were some stable and consistent base system it could rely on other than just the kernel. They're more a work around for the limitations of package managers, which require package maintainers, can't handle installing to alternate disks, aren't portable, are fragment as hell, etc.
- jose_zap 8y agoA great looking KDE distribution, I'm very impressed. Great job!