I know this isn’t the kind of news Linux fans were hoping to read on Christmas Day, but unfortunately, on a day meant for faith, kindness, and hope, others are choosing to act in exactly the opposite way.

Many of you probably remember the problems Arch faced just a few months ago due to massive DDoS attacks, which mainly affected the AUR. Sadly, just when it seemed those issues were behind, a new large-scale DDoS attack on Christmas Day once again made the distribution’s website effectively inaccessible.

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    9 hours ago

    Anybody more tech-savvy than my grandma can order botnet attacks nowadays. And due to it’s memed community it’s an obvious target.

    On a more tinfoil hat note: Arch is the base of SteamOS…