{"id":240576,"date":"2026-07-10T07:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/openmandriva-linux-says-contributor-tried-to-sabotage-the-project"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:17:04","slug":"openmandriva-linux-says-contributor-tried-to-sabotage-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/openmandriva-linux-says-contributor-tried-to-sabotage-the-project","title":{"rendered":"OpenMandriva Linux says contributor tried to sabotage the project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/openmandriva-linux-says-contributor-tried-to-sabotage-the-project.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The OpenMandriva Linux project announced that it was the target of an attempted act of internal sabotage after a dispute among contributors.<\/p>\n<p>The attempted destructive action extended from wiping GitHub repositories to pushing an empty package that could have damaged users\u2019 systems.<\/p>\n<p>OpenMandriva is an independent, community-run Linux distribution, forked from Mandriva Linux in 2012 and maintained by the OpenMandriva Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OpenMandriva Linux project announced that it was the target of an attempted act of internal sabotage after a dispute among contributors. The attempted destructive action extended from wiping GitHub repositories to pushing an empty package that could have damaged users\u2019 systems. OpenMandriva is an independent, community-run Linux distribution, forked from Mandriva Linux in 2012 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}