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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by LantenCompass@aussie.zone to c/austech@aussie.zone

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I am a debian user as well. It's what I have used for servers and dev for over 25 years. No distro is perfect. Debian maintainers sometimes add too many patches to upstream and introduce bugs and vulnerablilities. This is particularly nasty when SSH is involved. One of the things I like about arch is how little the maintainers alter upstream. The memes about arch aren't much like the reality.

The intention of the AUR was really good. If you wrote an installation script for a niche package or with different build options you could share it with others and get some skills and feedback on packaging. It was like Ubuntu's PPAs but simpler.

Like anything good it just takes a few bad actors. We just can't have nice things it seems. The whole FOSS ecosystem is under attack and we are all in it together. Shit like XZ can get any of us. It's not really a good time for distro wars.