A dust-up in OpenMandriva’s dev ranks escalates from abusive chats to vanished repositories and a ‘saboteur’ package that threatens Gnome and Cosmic users.
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With fresh funding from the Linux Foundation’s Alpha Omega initiative, FreeBSD is turning to AI tools and paid security staff to hunt vulnerabilities across its codebase.
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Arch has evidently stopped new AUR registrations for the time being while maintainers scrub malware and users debate how to harden the popular community repository.
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Just hours after Arch sounded the all‑clear on a massive AUR malware purge, a new, stealthier campaign is slipping malicious code back into user packages.
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Arch says it’s scrubbed all known malicious commits, but the 1,500‑plus affected AUR packages are a fresh reminder to “trust but verify.”
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Arch User Repository hit by a large-scale malware campaign, with maintainers racing to roll back malicious commits and lock out bad actors.
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AlmaLinux rolls out 9.8 and 10.2 side by side, pairing new compiler and language stacks with security fixes and an ALESCo‑approved kernel backport that arrives ahead of the RHEL upstream.
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Two kernel zero‑day fixes, two quick Tails releases, and one Tor‑backed project determined to keep its privacy‑minded users safe — this is open source security hygiene in action.
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Out with the old; in with the new. Gerald Pfeifer’s nearly seven‑year run as chair ends with SUSE veteran Jeff Mahoney moving into the role.
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With Podman 6 bringing big under‑the‑hood networking and modernization changes, Fedora is calling on experienced users to put the daemonless container engine through its paces.
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In this low‑pressure Monday meetup, Otto Kekäläinen helps aspiring Debian devs untangle packaging puzzles, absorb the culture, and turn curiosity into accepted contributions.
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We take Fedora’s newest weekly‑distro pick for a spin to see how it handles real‑world browsing, office work, media… with a bit of gaming on the side.
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Jon Seager’s roadmap brings agentic AI to Ubuntu through inference snaps and background enhancements, while vowing not to hard‑wire AI into the OS or shove it at unwilling users.
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The Fedora crew has bumped the launch more than once, yet the global, come‑as‑you‑are virtual release party is going ahead right on schedule.
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Gentoo has a Hurd port you can boot today, plus a straight-faced promise to ditch Linux by year’s end. We’re guessing only one of those things is real.
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After 12 years leading Ubuntu MATE, its founder says it’s time to hand the reins to new maintainers.
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Want an early look at Fedora 44 CoreOS? Here’s your chance to get a sneak peek and put the next release through its paces.
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This week, open met open. In this case, it was open source software, in the form of AlmaLinux Kitten, meeting open source hardware, in the form of the RISC-V instruction set architecture.
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A rebellion inside the Manjaro project, a community strike, and a threatened fork raise a hard question for users and contributors alike: is it time to rescue Manjaro, or walk away?
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EQT’s rumored plan to sell SUSE for up to $6 billion didn’t come out of nowhere. We trace the story from Novell and Microsoft to today’s anonymous‑source whispers.
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