｢ postmarketOS, an Alpine-based Linux distro designed to run on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, has published its 25.12 release ｣
https://linuxiac.com/postmarketos-25-12-brings-gnome-49-plasma-mobile-6-5-and-phosh-0-51/
｢ postmarketOS, an Alpine-based Linux distro designed to run on smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, has published its 25.12 release ｣
https://linuxiac.com/postmarketos-25-12-brings-gnome-49-plasma-mobile-6-5-and-phosh-0-51/
TIL: OSH apparently uses Alpine's aports tree as a testsuite https://oils.pub/blog/2025/12/release-0.37.0.html#building-thousands-of-alpine-linux-packages-with-osh
The ifstate 2.2 release - a tool for declarative network configuration for Linux - is available in the most recent stable releases of Alpine Linux 3.23 and NixOS 25.11. 🥳
Fun fact: this is the first NixOS release where you can use a declarative network configuration out of the box 😉
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@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.
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!)
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!
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.
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
