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![Massive AUR Malware Attack: DO NOT UPDATE
Well it was bound to happen eventually, there has been another major attack on the AUR, this time compromising over 400 packages within a day and possibly more to come as the vector has not been fixed.
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vxunderground: https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2065123579541238223
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AUR Mailing List 2: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/CIKQJQI3AREXIR6IQVWPBYFJPYLM45EF/
AUR Mailing List 3: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/L2JXQNYBGWOQQQXDEPEAICBHKFEFANUC/
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CachyOS Thread: https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/aur-compromised-400-packages-affected-20260611/31040
Lock AUR: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/WS2K2XGMLPBFZ3WGOPLF2UP32HZJ6ZSP/
Malware Analysis: https://ioctl.fail/preliminary-analysis-of-aur-malware/
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![Why Linux Is Unix-Like But Not Unix
In a recent video I did about FreeBSD I said that FreeBSD is Unix like but some people tried to correct me to say it was Unix, lets talk about what Unix actually is.
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![Debian Linux GNU Coreutils Situation Is Crazy
You may have heard that Debian Linux was going to be dropping GNU Core utils in favor of the Rust rewrite being pushed by Ubuntu Linux, this is not true at all, and is a complete misunderstanding of what is taking place on the making list.
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![Linux Just Standardized Something We All Use
We all make some sort of folder for storing our projects, so if its such a standard then why not actually standardize it in XDG User dirs and that is exactly what was done.
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Gitlab Issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-user-dirs/-/work_items/3
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![XFCE Is Taking A Serious Crack At Wayland
XFCE is finally getting a serious port to Wayland but thats not at the cost of the X11 side, Wayland will be handled in a separate code base keeping the X11 side free to be maintained. With the new Wayland compositor being called XFWL4 and X11 remaining as XFWM4
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![A Whole New Challenge For Open Source Licenses
Whilst developers are dealing with AI slop contributions to there repos, at the same time theres a whole new problem to deal with, using AI to rewrite the project to effectively launder the code out to another license, in this case from LGPL to MIT
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Mark Pilgrim: https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327
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![Flatpak Next: Dropping Systemd and X11?
Recently at LAS the Linux App Summit there was the announcement of a new major version of Flatpak called Flatpak Next or Flatpak v2 and instead of focusing on the cool stuff thats happening, there is instead a focus on a dumb drama that never had to happen.
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![River Is Doing What Everyone Said Was Impossible On Wayland
Youve probably heard that building a Wayland compositor is a lot of work compared to building an X11 Window Manager, but what if there was a way to make things considerably easier. Well River is doing exactly that to Wayland
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![KDE Plasmas VR Mode Looks Very Exciting
Out of nowhere a developer came along and decided to work on a full VR mode for KDE Plasma, now before you get the wrong idea, no this developer was not paid by Valve for Steam Frame work.
But sadly this work was not by a Valve employee
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#KDE #VR #SteamFrame #Valve #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS
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