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A beginner shares their experience switching from Arch Linux to GNU Guix, discussing the benefits of declarative system management, comparisons with NixOS, and challenges faced.
The user believes they have many computers, yet cannot locate an idle one for installing Omarchy.
The author announces their switch from Ubuntu to Omarchy after being impressed by its features, including AI agent integration and rapid customization, as showcased by NetworkChuck.
An in-depth look at Arch Linux's alpm-install-scriptlet files and alpm-hooks, how they work, how they are used across package repositories, and guidance for when to use each.
A long-time Arch Linux maintainer and security team member announces resignation after ~10 years of service, having contributed debug package support and POC work for the git migration.
Arch Linux has disabled adoption of orphaned AUR packages after a wave of malicious package adoptions pushed remote-access trojans to users, following earlier account-registration suspensions and a previous attack campaign.
The Arch User Repository (AUR) has been under sustained attack, with attackers creating new accounts to adopt orphaned packages and push malicious updates. The project has temporarily disabled new-user registration, but long-term security solutions remain unclear.
yay v13 introduces Lua hooks for extensibility and displays PKGBUILD last modification time to help users review packages more carefully, responding to the AURpocalypse incident.
Malicious packages in the Arch Linux AUR have been found inserting Russian spam into users' shell configuration files, prompting a cleanup effort by maintainers.
Arch Linux developers have contained a malware incident in the AUR user-contributed repository, deleting malicious commits affecting over 1,500 packages.
Security compromise of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages with infostealer and rootkit malware, posing a significant threat to users who installed the affected packages.
Security alert: malicious packages are being spread in the Arch User Repository (AUR), posing a risk to Arch Linux users.
Hundreds of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages were compromised by an infostealer malware. Package maintainers are working to remove malicious commits and ban the involved accounts.
Arch Linux notifies users that the varnish package has been renamed to vinyl-cache, requiring manual migration of configuration files, directories, users, and systemd units.
A critical blog post argues that omarchy, DHH's Linux distribution, is not a real distro but merely his personal dotfiles on top of Arch Linux, bundled with proprietary software and personal keybindings.
Arch Linux released a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image under a new "repro" tag, requiring users to regenerate pacman keys before package management.