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KageKen

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Registered: 2024-12-08

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How to keep up to date with Security and Away From System Crash

Hi, I'm a newbie for Arch Linux. I installed arch linux recently now I want to setup security and not letting the system gets crashes because packages updates and System updates. I also want to know where can I get to know about arch linux news updates and I also want to know how to prevent attacks on the system. Since I recently moved from windows to arch linux. Please Help Me With These Things.
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Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: How to keep up to date with Security and Away From System Crash

One question per thread please.

For security start with reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Security

for updates :
always use pacman -Syu and do this often.
If things go wrong troubleshooting is much easier if only a few things were updated.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

John-Something-Something

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Registered: 2024-12-04

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Re: How to keep up to date with Security and Away From System Crash

I don't work with cybersecurity so much so i can talk nonsense.
But about the update things, every day archwiki Home provides news about updates, somethimes errors.
And also a small guide of general recommendations.
But basically, like in any other distro. Reboot after an update, use the built in function journalctl -err to check for errors, systemctl status to check systemctl status.
Every time before installing something new update everything with pacman -Syu. Whem you start an update stop everything you are doing, close all the tabs, you don't want to freeze the system in this moment, specially when it involves the kernel, drivers, and anything that need a kernel recompilation, and when your pc is a gaming potato.
Use the wiki, everything there was tested at least 4 times before enter and they have tutorials for everything.
And it's quite normal to break arch in the start, it took me 1 month to learn how to don't crash the system, i reached at the point of reinstalling arch linux 4 times in just one week, but the time will time will teach you how to use it properly, it's a very powerful distro.

If you want to prevent attacks try to encrypt your main partition, connect to wifi only when needed and use ssh. But obviously there is much more than just this, be aware of security changes in the word, new protocols, cryptography and things.

And of course, Welcome to the Wiki!

Last edited by John-Something-Something (2024-12-08 12:36:24)