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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] FiniteBanjo@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

A few months before the windows incident they did the same thing to their Linux customers, so definitely can't blame that part on Windows. I think the real takeaway here is that bigger and more centralized is generally not better.