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I think we have a pretty awesome team, and a pretty awesome community.
I think we have a pretty awesome team, and a pretty awesome community.
a security fix in go and 597 packages needs to be rebuilt. what a nightmare
alcinnz
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@alcinnz@floss.social As one data point, my 2012 Macbook may be unacceptably slow with macOS... but #AlpineLinux is super fast there, except for the boot and resume from disk time of course. I guess #Debian would run fine there too, I just wanted something #musl imic for a change.
As a volunteer repairer... I encourage everyone to make the best use of their old devices! Don't replace them until you actually need to!
It takes a lot of effort to manufacture electronics, so please keep & use them for at least 7 years.
That's when the energy incurred from using your device balances out that from manufacturing it.
@alcinnz@floss.social As one data point, my 2012 Macbook may be unacceptably slow with macOS... but #AlpineLinux is super fast there, except for the boot and resume from disk time of course. I guess #Debian would run fine there too, I just wanted something #musl imic for a change.
Stefano Marinelli
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Made a minor update on https://caddy.ninja/ to include "spam_and_bot_block" section
(Also now hosted on Alpine Linux VPS running Caddy - how meta!)
Made a minor update on https://caddy.ninja/ to include "spam_and_bot_block" section
(Also now hosted on Alpine Linux VPS running Caddy - how meta!)
Gabriele Svelto
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We are trying get the #AlpineLinux 3.23 builds complete so we tag first release candidate.
Things getting in the way for that risk to get nuked at this point.
Special thanks to those of you who help fix build issues rather than introduce new breakages!
We are trying get the #AlpineLinux 3.23 builds complete so we tag first release candidate.
Things getting in the way for that risk to get nuked at this point.
Special thanks to those of you who help fix build issues rather than introduce new breakages!
Stefano Marinelli
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Hello, decided to log back into Mastodon as the bus to my town seems to have stopped a minute away from here for 20 minutes now. I have a few status updates regarding my tech adventures to share.
Firstly, I installed postmarketOS on a Samsung Galaxy S9 a few months ago, and with it, I moved to Alpine Linux on my laptop and desktop. The experience has been wonderful, but bumpy. It works really well on my laptop, but my desktop has faced some issues which I am happy to post on their mailing list once I am back home.
I also installed Arch Linux alongside my Alpine Linux installation as a redundant backup option in case one ends up broken by an update, or a mistake of my own. This has proven handy twice now, the second time ending up with my main system still under maintenance as of today. I also have a reserve Linux Mint USB, if it gets really bad, but I remain hopeful that it won't get that bad. Just for assurance, my ego has not inflated after installing it.
I still love using OpenBSD and FreeBSD when I can, but I deemed it more logical to use the operating system based off the kernel I want to develop for in the future. I plan on using OpenBSD on systems that I find to be not essential to use all the time, such as my brothers desktop, but I'm kind of bringing myself to use Alpine Linux on my daily drivers.
Sorry for disappearing for a while, this is a new phone which I forgot to install Mastodon on. My old phone drowned after my water bottle leaked during a walk, which meant I had to start over from scratch. I'm still addicted to Pixel phones however. Thanks for making a great operating system, #grapheneos team.
#OpenBSD #freebsd #alpinelinux #archlinux #BSD #Linux #technology #postmarketos
Hello, decided to log back into Mastodon as the bus to my town seems to have stopped a minute away from here for 20 minutes now. I have a few status updates regarding my tech adventures to share.
Firstly, I installed postmarketOS on a Samsung Galaxy S9 a few months ago, and with it, I moved to Alpine Linux on my laptop and desktop. The experience has been wonderful, but bumpy. It works really well on my laptop, but my desktop has faced some issues which I am happy to post on their mailing list once I am back home.
I also installed Arch Linux alongside my Alpine Linux installation as a redundant backup option in case one ends up broken by an update, or a mistake of my own. This has proven handy twice now, the second time ending up with my main system still under maintenance as of today. I also have a reserve Linux Mint USB, if it gets really bad, but I remain hopeful that it won't get that bad. Just for assurance, my ego has not inflated after installing it.
I still love using OpenBSD and FreeBSD when I can, but I deemed it more logical to use the operating system based off the kernel I want to develop for in the future. I plan on using OpenBSD on systems that I find to be not essential to use all the time, such as my brothers desktop, but I'm kind of bringing myself to use Alpine Linux on my daily drivers.
Sorry for disappearing for a while, this is a new phone which I forgot to install Mastodon on. My old phone drowned after my water bottle leaked during a walk, which meant I had to start over from scratch. I'm still addicted to Pixel phones however. Thanks for making a great operating system, #grapheneos team.
#OpenBSD #freebsd #alpinelinux #archlinux #BSD #Linux #technology #postmarketos
To everyone who says ‘install Linux’ as a solution to Windows problems (or ‘install LibreOffice’ as a solution to MS Office problems), imagine how you would react if you posted about Linux problems and all of the responses were ‘install Haiku’. Would it work? Maybe, but the person saying it has no idea what you do on Linux, whether the apps that you use run on Haiku (or have alternatives that you could switch to). Neither of you have a clear understanding of how much time and effort the switch would take, or what the network effects are that make switching hard.
If you have actually engaged with them, understood their requirements fully, and have a migration path outlined for them, great. If you’re just being a dick, think about how that makes people perceive Linux users: Maybe that isn’t a great way of driving adoption.
@david_chisnall Varying the distance:
Problems with #ubuntu? Install #alpinelinux.
Problems with Linux? Install #OpenBSD.
alcinnz
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Alpine Linux is moving to a /usr-merged filesystem layout.
Alpine Linux is moving to a /usr-merged filesystem layout.
OpenSSL 3.5.3 introduces a regression that makes ssh break on openssl version check.
https://github.com/openssl/project/issues/1621
If you use Alpine Linux:
- 3.22: make sure you get >=3.5.3-r1
- edge: make sure you get >=3.5.3-r2
Those include backports of upstream fixes.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
You also need to avoid those broken OpenSSH packages, which were compiled against the broken OpenSSL:
- 3.22: openssh-10.0_p1-r8
- edge: openssh-10.0_p1-r9
OpenSSL 3.5.3 introduces a regression that makes ssh break on openssl version check.
https://github.com/openssl/project/issues/1621
If you use Alpine Linux:
- 3.22: make sure you get >=3.5.3-r1
- edge: make sure you get >=3.5.3-r2
Those include backports of upstream fixes.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
@ariadne thank you for the explination and any OS is free to make its choices based on whatever rationale. I support #AlpineLinux in what the team wants to do. We all make choices based on the information at the time, not all decisions will sort everyone and no criticism was intended. Understand that XLibre is a particularly devisive topic but appreciate your answer also states why X itself is problematic long term.
@ariadne greater inclusion of actual systemd bits, the X compositor under Wayland in lieu of XLibre. The /usr thing doesn't bother me as long as the transition is painless. The last two or so releases appear to not have been as rigorously tested as previous one but that is subjective. All not helped by some of the wider politics and corporate 'involvement' in the Linux world.
#AlpineLinux is a wonderful OS and reliable with a good mix of software available. However, feel the team is struggling to expand and adapt as is becomes and more popular OS (Postmarket adding to the workload but contributing some too). Lots of people clearly doing good work. A loss of pure X and systemd components being added has triggered questions about whether #AlpineLinux is the right choice for the future. My contributions to the project are small and am not asking the project to change direction as that is wrong, just sharing an opinion for a user of it on multiple archs, using it as a server and desktop on fixed and portable devices. The wider issues in the 'Linux' community are more troubling and likely triggered the itch.
So, search is on for a new OS which feel could well be a BSD or Unix.
Hope that helps explain. Feel free to PM me if not or ask specifics here.
Stefano Marinelli
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Some thoughts on the past six months daily driving Alpine Linux and why I don't think I'll stay on it
https://blog.jutty.dev/posts/half-an-year-on-alpine/
#AlpineLinux#Linux#VoidLinux #operatingsystem#OperatingSystems
Some thoughts on the past six months daily driving Alpine Linux and why I don't think I'll stay on it
https://blog.jutty.dev/posts/half-an-year-on-alpine/
#AlpineLinux#Linux#VoidLinux #operatingsystem#OperatingSystems
@jutty I run #AlpineLinux a lot as server and desktop. The only thing I have compiled for it is xst. It is a great and fast system as you say with a very decent software selection.
However, it feels lile the core team is a little overwhelmed as Alpine gains in popularity. For me, some of the design decisions being made I am not so comfortable with and so my journey BSD/Unix has started.