FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending June 26, 2026

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.

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   AUR to Arch: ‘Houston, We’ve Got a Problem…We’re Under Attack Again’: Just hours after Arch sounded the all‑clear on a massive AUR malware purge, a new, stealthier campaign is slipping malicious code back into user packages.

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   AUR Registrations Blocked Amid Ongoing Malware Mess Arch has evidently stopped new AUR registrations for the time being while maintainers scrub malware and users debate how to harden the popular community repository.

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   It’s 1996 All Over Again on the New GIMP 0.54 Flatpak: Think today’s Gimp is complicated? Try the 1996 Motif version, now resurrected as a Flatpak so you can suffer for nostalgia’s sake.

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   Pop!_OS 24.04 and COSMIC Betas Have Arrived — We’ve Got Screenshots: Cosmic’s Rust-powered debut is here! Dive into Pop!_OS 24.04 beta and get your first look at the modern desktop that’s rewriting Linux history.

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   Get Linux Certification and Help Fund FOSS Force All at Once!: There are two ways to contribute to FOSS Force. The first way is to make a donation to our GoFundMe FOSS Force 2026 Independence Drive. The other is to sign up for Linux Foundation training, and let the foundation make a “donation” for you.