# 347: DistroWatch turns 25, NixOS 26.05, NVIDIA RTX Spark, AUR Malware, & more Linux news

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Podcast: [This Week in Linux](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-linux-66844)
Published: 2026-06-14T19:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://thisweekinlinux.fireside.fm/347
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video: https://youtu.be/86dRcm8BKI0 This week in Linux, we have some distro news like a new release of NixOS and some unfortunate security news for Arch users. Plus we'll check out the new RTX Spark Superchip that Nvidia announced and it's time to celebrate 25 years of DistroWatch as they reached this massive milestone this week! All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:47 DistroWatch.com Celebrates 25 Years 09:56 NVIDIA RTX Spark "Superchip" 16:31 NixOS 26.05 Released 18:50 Arch Linux's AUR Compromised with Malware 27:06 T2 Linux 26.6 Released 29:51 Homebrew 6.0 Released 33:30 Microsoft Coreutils, Wait! What? 37:23 Outro Links: DistroWatch.com Celebrates 25 Years https://distrowatch.com/ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260601#sitenews NVIDIA RTX Spark "Superchip" https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/ https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-microsoft-windows-pcs-agents-rtx-spark https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-RTX-Spark https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/ NixOS 26.05 Released https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2026/nixos-2605/ Arch Linux's AUR Compromised with Malware https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u3alhe/comment/or3vhax/ https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/aur-compromised-400-packages-affected-20260611/31040 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1u3alhe/roughly_400_aur_packages_compromised/ My Video = https://youtu.be/LunA3n_cRvU T2 Linux 26.6 Released…

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