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Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] kumi@feddit.online 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If you feel overwhelmed by this, an easy rule of thumb is sticking to distro packages of a trusted dist. Ideally ones with long track record, centralized packaging and tiered rollouts.

Roughly,

  • High community trust: Debian, SUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu

  • Depends on the package but at least everything is transparent with some form of process, contributors vetted, and a centralized namespace: Arch, Alpine, Nixpkgs

  • Anything and anyone goes, you are one typo away from malware but hey, at least things get taken down when folks complain: AUR, GitHub, NPM, DockerHub, adding third-party ppa/copr

  • IDGAF: curl | sh