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How often do you update your system? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
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I find that I habitually open a terminal and run an update on every boot of my system (which gets rebooted once a day). I'm curious what other people do.

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[โ€“] drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 7 months ago (1 children)

However often you do it, you should definitely do it today to cover the serious backdoor that's been discovered: https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/

[โ€“] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the heads up! ๐Ÿ˜Š