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Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
wtf does this mean?
No, that's just for development discussion and code versioning. Nothing the end-user needs to touch or see.
End users update their system with commands/through interfaces or they receive automatic updates, depending on their system.
We're talking about patching the kernel though.