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Active AUR malicious packages incident
2026-06-12
We are currently experiencing a high volume of malicious package adoptions and updates in the Arch User Repository.
We are actively working to track down existing malicious commits and attempting to prevent additional malicious commits from being pushed. While this is happening, and while we work to create a more permanent solution, users may see issues with the following:
Creating new accounts on the AUR
Pushing package updates
Adopting or creating new packages
We continue to encourage all users of AUR packages to review all PKGBUILD and install script changes when updating, especially during this time. If you notice suspicious commits to a package that you use, please reach out to Arch staff via the aur-general mailing list with more information.

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Arch Linux 2026 Leader Election Results
2026-06-04
Recently we held our leader elections and after a lively discussion period on the (internal) mailing lists and voting phase with two candidates Levente "anthraxx" Polyák was re-elected as Arch Linux Project Lead.
As per our election rules he is re-elected with the term lasting two years.
The role of of the project lead within Arch Linux is connected to a bunch of responsibilities regarding decision making (when no consensus can be reached), community leadership, Code of Conduct enforcement, handling financial matters with SPI and overall project management tasks.
Congratulations to Levente, thank you for stepping up …

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Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`
2026-05-25
The Varnish project has renamed itself to Vinyl Cache. We followed this rename with a new vinyl-cache package. This upgrade results in breaking changes and users are advised to study these changes and how it affects them before following the replacement. All references to "varnish" have been changed to "vinyl" in all binaries and directories.
At minimum, users will have to:
rename /etc/varnish to /etc/vinyl-cache
rename /var/lib/varnish to /var/lib/vinyl-cache
fix up ownership of files inside /var/lib/varnish
user varnish becomes vinyl
group varnish becomes vinyl
user varnishlog …

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kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention
2026-04-07
The kea package has moved all services to run as a dedicated kea user (instead of root) for improved security. This change requires permission updates to the runtime files created by the kea services.
Users upgrading from an existing kea installation should therefore run the following commands after the upgrade:
chown kea: /var/lib/kea/* /var/log/kea/* /run/lock/kea/logger_lockfile
systemctl try-restart kea-ctrl-agent.service kea-dhcp{4,6,-ddns}.service
Accounts that need to interact with kea services files (e.g. lease files under /var/lib/kea, log files under /var/log/kea or configuration files under /etc/kea) should be added to the kea group.

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iptables now defaults to the nft backend
2026-04-05
The old iptables-nft package name is replaced by iptables, and the legacy backend is available as iptables-legacy.
When switching packages (among iptables-nft, iptables, iptables-legacy), check for .pacsave files in /etc/iptables/ and restore your rules if needed:
/etc/iptables/iptables.rules.pacsave
/etc/iptables/ip6tables.rules.pacsave
Most setups should work unchanged, but users relying on uncommon xtables extensions or legacy-only behavior should test carefully and use iptables-legacy if required.

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2025-12-20
NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules

2025-12-11
.NET packages may require manual intervention

2025-11-06
waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention

2025-10-31
dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention

2025-08-21
Recent service outages

2025-08-04
zabbix >= 7.4.1-2 may require manual intervention

2025-06-21
linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention

2025-06-20
Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11

2025-06-16
Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging

2025-04-17
Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

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2026-06-12
Active AUR malicious packages incident
Campbell Jones

2026-06-04
Arch Linux 2026 Leader Election Results
Christian Heusel

2026-05-25
Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`
Sven-Hendrik Haase

2026-04-07
kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention
Robin Candau

2026-04-05
iptables now defaults to the nft backend
Felix Yan

2025-12-20
NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules
Peter Jung

2025-12-11
.NET packages may require manual intervention
George Rawlinson

2025-11-06
waydroid >= 1.5.4-3 update may require manual intervention
George Hu

2025-10-31
dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention
Thore Bödecker

2025-08-21
Recent service outages
Christian Heusel

2025-08-04
zabbix >= 7.4.1-2 may require manual intervention
Robin Candau

2025-06-21
linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
Jan Alexander Steffens

2025-06-20
Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
Tomaz Canabrava

2025-06-16
Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging
Peter Jung

2025-04-17
Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository
Andrew Crerar

2025-02-17
Cleaning up old repositories
Sven-Hendrik Haase

2025-02-03
Glibc 2.41 corrupting Discord installation
Frederik Schwan

2025-01-16
Critical rsync security release 3.4.0
Robin Candau

2024-11-19
Providing a license for package sources
Rafael Epplée

2024-09-14
Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required
Morten Linderud

2024-07-01
The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1
Robin Candau

2024-04-15
Arch Linux 2024 Leader Election Results
Christian Heusel

2024-04-07
Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value
Robin Candau

2024-03-29
The xz package has been backdoored
David Runge

2024-03-04
mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode
Morten Linderud

2024-01-09
Making dbus-broker our default D-Bus daemon
Jan Alexander Steffens

2023-12-03
Bugtracker migration to GitLab completed
Christian Heusel

2023-11-02
Incoming changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention
Frederik Schwan

2023-09-22
Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
David Runge

2023-08-19
ansible-core >= 2.15.3-1 update may require manual intervention
Robin Candau

2023-08-11
budgie-desktop >= 10.7.2-6 update requires manual intervention
Campbell Jones

2023-06-18
TeX Live package reorganization
Antonio Rojas

2023-06-14
OpenBLAS >= 0.3.23-2 update requires manual intervention
Felix Yan

2023-05-21
Git migration completed
Levente Polyak

2023-05-15
Git migration announcement
Jelle van der Waa

2023-02-12
Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention
Robin Candau

2023-01-13
PHP 8.2 update and introduction of legacy branch
Pierre Schmitz

2023-01-12
In memory of Jonathon Fernyhough
Morten Linderud

2022-09-23
Removing python2 from the repositories
Jelle van der Waa

2022-09-16
Arch Linux mailing list changes
Kristian Klausen

2022-08-30
Grub bootloader upgrade and configuration incompatibilities
Christian Hesse

2022-07-14
wxWidgets 3.2 update may need manual intervention
Antonio Rojas

2022-05-12
Undone replacement of pipewire-media-session with wireplumber
Jan Alexander Steffens

2022-05-09
QEMU >= 7.0.0 changes split package setup
David Runge

2022-03-25
Keycloak 17.0.1-2 update requires manual reconfiguration
Leonidas Spyropoulos

2022-02-23
Arch Linux Leader Election Results
Giancarlo Razzolini

2022-02-02
Debug packages and debuginfod
Morten Linderud

2022-01-21
linux-firmware 20220119.0c6a7b3-2 requires kernel >=5.3 and package splitting
Andreas Radke

2021-12-27
libxml2>=2.9.12-6 update may require manual intervention
Jan Alexander Steffens

2021-06-08
Sorting out old password hashes
Christian Hesse

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[H2] Arch Linux Developers
This is a list of the current Arch Linux Developers. They maintain the [core] and [extra] package repositories in addition to doing any other developer duties.

Allan McRae

Anatol Pomozov

Andreas Radke

Andrew Gregory

Antonio Rojas

Christian Hesse

David Runge

Felix Yan

Frederik Schwan

Giancarlo Razzolini

Jan Alexander Steffens

Jelle van der Waa

Johannes Löthberg

Jürgen Hötzel

Laurent Carlier

Leonidas Spyropoulos

Levente Polyak

Lukas Fleischer

Maxime Gauduin

Morten Linderud

Pierre Schmitz

Sven-Hendrik Haase

Sébastien Luttringer

Tobias Powalowski

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[H3] Allan McRae
¶

Alias:
Allan
Email:
allan@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
amcrae@libera
PGP Key:
6645B0A8C7005E78DB1D7864F99FFE0FEAE999BD
Roles:
Pacman Developer

Website:
http://allanmcrae.com/
Social:

Occupation:
Statistical Geneticist
Birth Year:
2099
Location:
Brisbane, Australia
Languages:
English
Interests:
Geocaching
Favorite Distros:
LFS

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[H3] Anatol Pomozov
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Alias:
anatolik
Email:
anatol.pomozov@gmail.com
Other Contact:
None
PGP Key:
8E1992167465DB5FB045557CB02854ED753E0F1F
Roles:
None

Website:

Social:

Occupation:
Software Engineer
Birth Year:
1982
Location:
San Jose, CA
Languages:
Russian, Belarusian, English
Interests:
None
Favorite Distros:
Arch

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[H3] Andreas Radke
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Alias:
andyrtr
Email:
andyrtr@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
irc://irc.freenode.net:andyrtr
PGP Key:
ADC8A1FCC15E01D45310419E94657AB20F2A092B
Roles:
Package Maintainer

Website:

Social:

Occupation:
Statutary accident insurance
Birth Year:
1975
Location:
Magdeburg, Germany
Languages:
German, English
Interests:
Packaging, Gym, Running, Family
Favorite Distros:
Arch, DietPi

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[H3] Andrew Gregory
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Alias:
apg
Email:
andrew@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
None
PGP Key:
0016846EDD8432261C62CB63DF3891463C352040
Roles:
Pacman Developer

Website:

Social:

Occupation:
Software Developer
Birth Year:
1986
Location:
San Jose, CA
Languages:
English
Interests:
Programming, Martial Arts
Favorite Distros:
Arch

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[H3] Antonio Rojas
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Alias:
arojas
Email:
arojas@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
irc://irc.freenode.net:arojas
PGP Key:
9D74DF6F91B7BDABD5815CA84AC5588F941C2A25
Roles:
KDE & Math Software packager

Website:

Social:

Occupation:
Mathematician
Birth Year:

Location:
Sevilla
Languages:
Spanish, English, French
Interests:
Science, mathematics, software
Favorite Distros:
Arch

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[H3] Christian Hesse
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Alias:
eworm
Email:
eworm@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
irc://irc.libera.chat/eworm matrix:u/eworm:archlinux.org https://t.me/eworm_de threema:K9K47P2K
PGP Key:
02FD1C7A934E614545849F19A6234074498E9CEE
Roles:
Developer & Packager

Website:
https://www.eworm.de/
Social:

Occupation:
Network and System Administrator
Birth Year:
1982
Location:
Oberhausen, Germany
Languages:
English, German
Interests:
R/C helicopters, photography, Reading, Climbing, Geocaching, Archery
Favorite Distros:
Arch

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[H3] David Runge
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Alias:
dvzrv
Email:
dvzrv@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
ircs://irc.libera.chat:dvzrv, ircs://irc.oftc.net:dvzrv
PGP Key:
991F6E3F0765CF6295888586139B09DA5BF0D338
Roles:
Developer, Package Maintainer

Website:
https://sleepmap.de
Social:
https://chaos.social/@dvzrv
Occupation:
Software Developer
Birth Year:
1985
Location:
Berlin
Languages:
German, English, French
Interests:
Sound
Favorite Distros:
Arch Linux

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[H3] Felix Yan
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Alias:
felixonmars
Email:
felixonmars@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
matrix:@felixonmars:archlinux.org, irc.libera.chat:felixonmars
PGP Key:
B5971F2C5C10A9A08C60030F786C63F330D7CB92
Roles:
Developer, TU, Arch Linux CN, Arch Linux RISC-V

Website:
http://felixc.at/
Social:
https://g0v.social/@felixonmars
Occupation:
Developer & Sysadmin
Birth Year:
1991
Location:
Wuhan, China
Languages:
Chinese, English
Interests:
Packaging, Gaming, Fix typos
Favorite Distros:
Arch Linux

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[H3] Frederik Schwan
¶

Alias:
freswa
Email:
freswa@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
None
PGP Key:
05C7775A9E8B977407FE08E69D4C5AA15426DA0A
Roles:
Developer

Website:

Social:

Occupation:
None
Birth Year:

Location:
Germany
Languages:
None
Interests:
None
Favorite Distros:
None

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[H3] Giancarlo Razzolini
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Alias:
grazzolini
Email:
grazzolini@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
irc://irc.freenode.org:grazzolini
PGP Key:
ECCAC84C1BA08A6CC8E63FBBF22FB1D78A77AEAB
Roles:
Trusted User / DevOps / mkinitcpio Developer / Package Maintainer

Website:
https://razzolini.com.br
Social:

Occupation:
Developer / Sysadmin
Birth Year:
1983
Location:
Curitiba, Brasil
Languages:
Portuguese, English
Interests:
Security, Physics, Computers
Favorite Distros:
Arch Linux

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[H3] Jan Alexander Steffens
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Alias:
heftig
Email:
heftig@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
matrix: @heftig:archlinux.org | irc: heftig@irc.libera.chat
PGP Key:
83BC8889351B5DEBBB68416EB8AC08600F108CDF
Roles:
Developer

Website:
http://pkgbuild.com/~heftig/
Social:

Occupation:
Software Engineer
Birth Year:
1988
Location:
Rheinbach, Germany
Languages:
German, English
Interests:
None
Favorite Distros:
Arch, Fedora

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[H3] Jelle van der Waa
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Alias:
jelly
Email:
jelle@vdwaa.nl
Other Contact:
irc://irc.libera.chat:jelle
PGP Key:
E499C79F53C96A54E572FEE1C06086337C50773E
Roles:
Developer, TU, DevOps, Security Team, Repro builds

Website:
https://vdwaa.nl
Social:

Occupation:
Developer
Birth Year:

Location:
Delft, Netherlands
Languages:
Dutch, English
Interests:
Security, Kernel, Automation
Favorite Distros:
Arch Linux, what else?!

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[H3] Johannes Löthberg
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Alias:
demize
Email:
johannes@kyriasis.com
Other Contact:
demize@libera
PGP Key:
5134EF9EAF65F95B6BB1608E50FB9B273A9D0BB5
Roles:
Dev, TU, and thing-doer

Website:

Social:

Occupation:
None
Birth Year:

Location:
Gävle, Sweden
Languages:
English, Swedish
Interests:
Linux, Networking, Obscure tech, Science Fiction
Favorite Distros:
None

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[H3] Jürgen Hötzel
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Alias:
juergen
Email:
juergen@hoetzel.info
Other Contact:
https://twitter.com/juergenhoetzel
PGP Key:
209A36D43CE2E87DA861FC58539DFD48135182EF
Roles:
Package Maintainer

Website:
http://www.hoetzel.info
Social:

Occupation:
SysAdmin / Programmer
Birth Year:
1974
Location:
Frankfurt, Germany
Languages:
German, English
Interests:
Computers, Sports: Running
Favorite Distros:
Arch, FreeBSD

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[H3] Laurent Carlier
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Alias:
lordheavy
Email:
lordheavym@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
lordheavym@gmail.com
PGP Key:
535F8C0339450F054A4D282706096A6AD1CEDDAC
Roles:
Developer/Trusted User

Website:

Social:

Occupation:
Eurostar Train Driver
Birth Year:
1972
Location:
Neuville sur Escaut, France
Languages:
French, English, some Dutch
Interests:
Free Software, cooking, road and cross country cycling
Favorite Distros:
Archlinux

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[H3] Leonidas Spyropoulos
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Alias:
artafinde
Email:
artafinde@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
irc://irc.libera.chat:artafinde | matrix: @artafinde:artafinde.dev
PGP Key:
2191B89431BAC0A8B96DE93D244740D17C7FD0EC
Roles:
Developer, Packager & DevOps

Website:

Social:
https://chaos.social/@artafinde
Occupation:
Software Engineer
Birth Year:

Location:
London
Languages:
English, Greek
Interests:
Archlinux, Performance, Programming, Gaming
Favorite Distros:
Archlinux

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[H3] Levente Polyak
¶

Alias:
anthraxx
Email:
anthraxx@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
irc://irc.freenode.net:anthraxx
PGP Key:
E240B57E2C4630BA768E2F26FC1B547C8D8172C8
Roles:
Developer, Trusted User, Security Team

Website:
https://leventepolyak.net
Social:
https://chaos.social/@anthraxx
Occupation:
Software Engineer
Birth Year:
1986
Location:
Hamburg
Languages:
English, German, Hungarian
Interests:
Security, Reverse Engineering, Programming, Anime
Favorite Distros:
Arch Linux

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[H3] Lukas Fleischer
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Alias:
lfleischer
Email:
lfleischer@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
irc://irc.freenode.net:lfleischer
PGP Key:
2E36D8620221482FC45CB7F2A91764759326B440
Roles:
Package maintainer, former aurweb maintainer

Website:
https://lfos.de/
Social:

Occupation:
Software Engineer
Birth Year:
1990
Location:
Toronto, ON
Languages:
German, English, Spanish (basic), French (basic)
Interests:
Health/fitness, climate/sustainability, and travel
Favorite Distros:
Arch Linux (and OpenBSD)

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[H3] Maxime Gauduin
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Alias:
alucryd
Email:
alucryd@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
None
PGP Key:
95220BE99CE6FF778AE0DC670F65C7D881506130
Roles:
Developer, Trusted User

Website:

Social:

Occupation:
Cloud Architect
Birth Year:
1989
Location:
Lille, France
Languages:
French, English, some Japanese
Interests:
Computers, Video Games, Manga & Anime
Favorite Distros:
Arch Linux, Alpine Linux

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[H3] Morten Linderud
¶

Alias:
Foxboron
Email:
foxboron@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
irc://irc.libera.chat:Foxboron
PGP Key:
C100346676634E80C940FB9E9C02FF419FECBE16
Roles:
Security Team, Reproducible Builds, Tester, Trusted User

Website:
https://linderud.dev/
Social:

Occupation:
Security engineer, former student
Birth Year:
1994
Location:
Oslo
Languages:
Norwegian and English
Interests:
Guitar, photography
Favorite Distros:
Arch Linux, Debian

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[H3] Pierre Schmitz
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Alias:
pierre
Email:
pierre@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
pierre@archlinux.de
PGP Key:
3E80CA1A8B89F69CBA57D98A76A5EF9054449A5C
Roles:
Developer, Backend-, Website- and Package Maintainer

Website:
https://pierre-schmitz.com
Social:

Occupation:
Senior Vibe Coding Assistant
Birth Year:
1982
Location:
Bonn, Germany
Languages:
German, English
Interests:
yes
Favorite Distros:
Alpine Linux

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[H3] Sven-Hendrik Haase
¶

Alias:
svenstaro
Email:
svenstaro@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
None
PGP Key:
8FC15A064950A99DD1BD14DD39E4B877E62EB915
Roles:
Packager, Developer

Website:
http://www.svenstaro.org/
Social:

Occupation:
Cloud Consultant
Birth Year:
1990
Location:
Germany
Languages:
English, German
Interests:
Nerdy computer stuff
Favorite Distros:
Arch Linux

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[H3] Sébastien Luttringer
¶

Alias:
seblu
Email:
seblu@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
https://bsky.app/profile/seblu.net
PGP Key:
B81B051F2D7FC867AAFF35A58DBD63B82072D77A
Roles:
♈

Website:
https://seblu.net
Social:

Occupation:
Engineer
Birth Year:
1984
Location:
Paris, France
Languages:
French, English
Interests:
?, ?, ?
Favorite Distros:
Archlinux, Debian, OpenBSD

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[H3] Tobias Powalowski
¶

Alias:
tpowa
Email:
tpowa@archlinux.org
Other Contact:
irc://irc.libera.chat:tpowa jabber:tpowa
PGP Key:
5B7E3FB71B7F10329A1C03AB771DF6627EDF681F
Roles:
Package Maintainer, Kernel Monkey

Website:
https://www.st-martin-apo.de
Social:

Occupation:
SysAdmin / Pharmacist
Birth Year:
1981
Location:
Lauingen, Germany
Languages:
German, English, French
Interests:
Computers, Music, Sports:Tennis, Handball
Favorite Distros:
Arch

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