{"id":287747,"date":"2026-07-09T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/openmandriva-linux-says-contributor-tried-to-sabotage-the-project\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:30:07","slug":"openmandriva-linux-says-contributor-tried-to-sabotage-the-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/openmandriva-linux-says-contributor-tried-to-sabotage-the-project\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenMandriva Linux says contributor tried to sabotage the project"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenMandriva Linux says contributor tried to sabotage the project<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/openmandriva-linux-says-contributor-tried-to-sabotage-the-project\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-09 18:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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The OpenMandriva Linux project announced that it was the target of an attempted act of internal sabotage after a dispute among contributors.<\/p>\n

The attempted destructive action extended from wiping GitHub repositories to pushing an empty package that could have damaged users’ systems.<\/p>\n

OpenMandriva is an independent, community-run Linux distribution, forked from Mandriva Linux in 2012 and maintained by the OpenMandriva Association.<\/p>\n

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The distro stands out for building most of its components with the LLVM\/Clang toolchain instead of GCC, which is commonly used by most Linux distributions.<\/p>\n

According to a post on the project’s forum from long-time OpenMandriva developer and maintainer AngryPenguin, the sabotage attempt occurred after a contributor’s abusive behavior “towards certain users and members of the distribution,” which caused some of them to leave the project.<\/p>\n

Following these events, Davide Beatrici, the leading developer of the instant messaging app Mumble and a friend of the attacker, decided to delete part of a repository the OpenMandriva team had been working on for almost a decade.<\/p>\n

AngryPenguin stated that Beatrici had administrative privileges because he previously helped migrate and mirror project repositories to his private OneDev instance.<\/p>\n

Apart from the data wipe, Beatrici also published an empty package in the Cooker repository that obsoleted the packages for the Gnome and Cosmic desktop environments.<\/p>\n

The OpenMandriva team says it is currently restoring the deleted repositories and packages and is conducting a full system audit to determine any other unauthorized changes.<\/p>\n

BleepingComputer has contacted Beatrici directly, as well as through the Mumble team, requesting his side of the story, but we have not heard back as of publishing.<\/p>\n

However, Beatrici rejected the sabotage claims in a statement for The Lunduke Journal, saying that his goal was never to harm the OpenMandriva community or the distribution\u2019s…<\/p>\n

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