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Manjaro Linux announced it is transitioning away from its founder-led management model toward a governance structure run by its community members. The change affects how decisions about the distribution's development and direction will be made going forward.
A Hugging Face contributor and Arch Linux package maintainer built a bootable Arch Linux ARM setup for the ASUS ProArt P16 H7607BA-SE033W, a laptop with 128GB of RAM, 6,144 CUDA cores and a 2TB SSD that ships with official Windows-only support. The build incorporates NVIDIA's Ubuntu kernel work, custom ACPI overrides, a patched hid-asus driver for the keyboard, and official NVIDIA and ASUS firmware, with 7-Zip performance matching Windows and the OS correctly reporting the full 116GiB unified memory pool to CUDA.
A threat actor using the account 'marchos1as' uploaded trojanized packages to the Arch User Repository, typosquatting the popular yay and paru helper tools. The packages bundled legitimate upstream code with a malicious install script that ran a remote shell script with root privileges, discovered by the community on October 13. Arch Linux maintainers banned the account and removed the malicious uploads after users flagged them on the project's mailing list.
CSS-Tricks, the web development site DigitalOcean acquired in 2022 and briefly revived in mid-2024 under editor Geoff Graham, has gone inactive again with no explanation from its owner. Meanwhile, DigitalOcean quickly arranged a $3 million donation to Omarchy, a set of Arch Linux scripts led by David Heinemeier Hansson, and has also stopped small monthly payments to GNOME and Flathub infrastructure.
Omarchy is a Linux distribution built on Arch that automates installation and configuration while integrating multiple AI coding agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Grok CLI directly into the desktop. Users can pick a default agent to debug system issues, tweak settings, or build apps and themes, and can also run local models via LM Studio or Ollama. It targets developers on modern x86-64 hardware, though it can run on older machines too.