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NX AppHub Introduced as Nitrux’s Minimalist AppImage Solution
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The devs behind the immutable Linux distro Nitrux, aimed at more advanced users with an affinity for developing, introduced NX AppHub, a brand-new system that aims to refine how users manage, build, and install applications in Nitrux.
As you probably know, Nitrux primarily relies on AppImages for installing software—it’s the main method the distro sticks to and relies on.
According to devs, the idea behind NX AppHub has been evolving over the last year since they first unveiled the NX AppImage Build Hub project, inspired by AppRepo.de, a defunct website that formerly hosted numerous build scripts and AppImages. They attempted to build on this idea by forking those repositories and automatically building applications via GitHub Actions.
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NX AppHub is a new system that simplifies how applications are built, installed, updated, and managed in Nitrux. It’s made up of several components, including a command-line tool (NX AppHub CLI), a central repository of app recipes (NX AppHub Apps), and a desktop integration service (NX AppHub Daemon). Together, these tools let users install or update applications with a single command -- no root access required -- while ensuring that every app is built from a curated, reproducible source.
This new approach is a big improvement over the old system. Previously, apps were pulled from external sites like AppImageHub, which could go offline or stop working at any time. Now, Nitrux maintains its own Git-based repository of app definitions, so users can trust that the software comes from a reliable and maintained source.