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CachyOS

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

"CachyOS" redirects here, but there is no mention of it anywhere on the page.

The redirect should be deleted. David G (talk) 19:21, 18 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

I just arrived here for the same reason. However, I am not sure if the resolution should be to remove the redirect or mention CachyOS under derivatives. Nuretok (talk) 06:32, 19 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

ddos august 2025

Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion

there 2 edits [1][2] from @Collbrothers and @Ho1Ai

on [1] As of 24 August 2025 the attacks remain

from the given source [3] there is no mention on the date

on [2] As of 30 August 2025 the attack was discontinued

with comment https://archlinux.org/ - site, which was under DDoS (AUR - https://aur.archlinux.org/). Now it works. I'm not sure, when this attack was discontinued, but at least the site didn't work on 2025/08/29 at 6:32 AM UTC+3 and it was OK on 2025/08/30 at approximately 8:15 PM

i think this feel like Wikipedia:No original research case. looking at [4] it may not completely stop yet.

i recommend to wait until there is announcement or another source that report about this

until then i removed both statement for now

Lokiretro (talk) 23:15, 1 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Linux has an RfC

Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Linux has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Victor Matheus Amaral (talk • contribs) 21:55, 5 May 2026 (UTC)Reply

AUR malware case - June 11, 2026

Latest comment: 3 months ago3 comments2 people in discussion

Recently, large amount of packages in the Arch User Repository were being infected, as could be seen here, or here, and mentioned in this official announcement here. I think the incident is pretty notable for me, so how about adding it to the AUR section of the article? Exploraz (talk) 00:13, 13 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

maybe here is better List of security hacking incidents Lokiretro (talk) 03:38, 13 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Looks like someone added it already here: Special:Diff/1359430545 Exploraz (talk) 08:29, 15 June 2026 (UTC)Reply