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AUR Packages Adoption And Pushes Disabled
2 months ago
- Package adoption on AUR is temporarily disabled due to malicious adoptions and commits.
- Users are advised to report suspicious adoption events or commits.
- All pushes to AUR have been disabled to handle the security situation.
- The Arch Linux DevOps team is working on resolving the issue and will send a follow-up.
Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team
2 months ago
- Morten Linderud (Foxboron) resigns as an Arch Linux package maintainer and developer after nearly a decade.
- Key packages mkinitcpio and arch-install-scripts are left without an active maintainer.
- Provides lists of orphaned packages (sole maintainer) and packages needing co-maintainers, including pacman, sbctl, and others.
- Expresses gratitude to friends made during his involvement.
Arch AUR Under Another Wave of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted
2 months ago
- Last month, the AUR experienced over 1,500 malicious packages due to a sophisticated malware attack and an influx of spam and profanities.
- A new wave of malicious packages has emerged, prompting the Arch Linux team to temporarily disable package adoptions in the AUR.
- Users are urged to report suspicious adoption events and comments and remain vigilant.
- A mailing list thread documents dozens of affected packages, including i915-sriov-dkms, rtk-git, and others.
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
2 months ago
- Arch Linux DevOps team disabled adoption of orphaned packages in the AUR due to malicious package adoptions and follow-up commits.
- The malware is a remote-access trojan (RAT) that communicates over the Tor network and attempts to upload user data.
- New account registration was suspended in June after a similar attack, and reopened on July 13 with ineffective restrictions.
Arch Linux on Surface Book 1
2 months ago
- The author switched to Arch Linux on a Surface Book 1 after Microsoft deemed it obsolete, motivated by defiance and Windows decay.
- Debian was tried first but rejected due to sleep issues, desire for full disk encryption including /boot, and a preference for latest software versions.
- Arch Linux installed successfully with KDE, offering a snappy, lightweight experience and good high-DPI display support.
- Battery life is similar to Windows (~4-5 hours), touchpad and touchscreen work, and hibernation was enabled with a large swapfile.
- Major issues include lack of S0ix sleep states (5% battery drain per hour while closed), no working dedicated GPU, and janky camera setup requiring kernel module fiddling.
- Power states were initially missing but resolved by installing power-profiles-daemon, offering eco, normal, and performance modes.
- A critical bug filled /tmp with crash dumps, causing a non-bootable system after pacman update; this was resolved by switching to BTRFS with snapshots.
- Overall, the author is satisfied with Arch and KDE, appreciating the latest software and hoping to never reinstall.
Beej's Bit Bucket
2 months ago
- Arch and Slackware are Linux distributions designed for users who prefer manual configuration and want to learn system internals.
- Both adhere to the KISS principle, support 32-bit and 64-bit, use tarball-based package management, and require text-mode installation and manual config editing.
- Slackware prioritizes stability with well-tested packages, security updates, standard version-based releases, and no package dependency system.
- Arch offers cutting-edge software with a rolling release model, a larger official repository (~4000 packages), dependency resolution via pacman, and continuous updates.
- Community software is provided via SlackBuilds.org (SBo, 1700 vetted scripts) for Slackware and the Arch User Repository (AUR, 18000 unvetted scripts) for Arch.
- Slackware is ideal for servers due to stability and conservative updates; Arch suits desktops with fresh software but is less recommended for servers.
I Finally Fixed My Locales In Arch Linux (Yes I Am Smart)
2 months ago
- User had half-broken locales in Arch Linux for 8 months, with errors like 'Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale'.
- After checking /etc/locale.conf and /etc/locale.gen, the issue persisted.
- Found clue: unsetting LANG and sourcing /etc/profile.d/locale.sh resolved the problem temporarily.
- Realized KDE was overriding locale settings with a misconfigured value (en_us.UTF-8 instead of en_US.UTF-8).
- In KDE Settings -> Region and Language, 'American English' was listed twice; deleted both and re-added.
- After running locale-gen and rebooting, locales worked correctly.
- Theory: initial typo in /etc/locale.conf (en_us vs en_US) was fixed later, but KDE stored the bugged entry.
Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux
2 months ago
- Reviving an ASUS Eee PC 1000HE netbook from 2009 by installing Arch Linux 32 due to its low specs (Intel Atom N280, 1GB RAM).
- Replacing Windows XP with Arch Linux for a lightweight, customizable OS, requiring community-maintained Arch Linux 32 for 32-bit support.
- Detailed installation process including boot media preparation, internet setup via Wi-Fi using iwd, disk partitioning with MBR, and configuring swap and root partitions.
- System configuration involved setting timezone, hostname, root password, and installing GRUB bootloader for BIOS/MBR setup.
- Network setup using systemd-networkd, systemd-resolved, and iwd to ensure post-installation connectivity.
- Installing essential packages, AUR helper paru (built from source despite swap space issues), and lightweight LXQt desktop environment with X11.
- Upgrading RAM from 1GB to 2GB DDR2 SO-DIMM to mitigate out-of-memory errors, though performance remained limited by HDD and CPU bottlenecks.

arch linux

AUR Packages Adoption And Pushes Disabled

Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team

Arch AUR Under Another Wave of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption

Arch Linux on Surface Book 1

Beej's Bit Bucket

I Finally Fixed My Locales In Arch Linux (Yes I Am Smart)

Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux