@starr you peak my curiosity about #pop_os, so this weekend I did my exploration to #alpinelinux + #cosmic

https://ruby.social/@esparta/116112792762022614

has been great until now

@aa I was so used to use #alpinelinux for virtual machines for a long while, what changed my mind was this Drew DeVault post:

In praise of Alpine Linux
https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.html

It took me that long mostly because I didn't have any incentive to move myself away from #archlinux, and still don't have one, but I wanted a change anyway. I like rolling releases, but I'm currently more into an stable way, wanted to try #musl and unify everything: desktop and my servers infrastructure.

@nshki well, rumors are true. #cosmic is great, ain't perfect and it takes a little time to get used to some things as the resizing of windows, but besides that cosmic have anything to ask to the other desktops.

For me it was an experimental situation. I was testing #alpinelinux for a replacement of #archlinux in my computers - I had it planned since at least 2023. I asked myself "why not? Let's try #cosmic", it seems it will replace #kde.

My Alpine install is complete.

Surprising absolutely no one that has known me for a while, I am running dwm.

What an amazing distro. I think I am probably going to move to Alpine full-time.

#alpinelinux #suckless #dwm #blackmetal #altarofplagues #nowplaying

We lost a major infrastructure sponsor, but reached out to the community and gained several new ones. We are thankful for the companies who provided us with servers and bandwidth and everyone who donated financially.

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-01-18-new-sponsors-strenghten-infrastructure.html

#AlpineLinux #FOSS

We lost a major infrastructure sponsor, but reached out to the community and gained several new ones. We are thankful for the companies who provided us with servers and bandwidth and everyone who donated financially.

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-01-18-new-sponsors-strenghten-infrastructure.html

#AlpineLinux #FOSS

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

#AlpineLinux

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 😉

https://ifstate.net/2.2/docs/install/#nixos

#AlpineLinux #ifstate #linuxnetworking #nixos #nixpkgs

I think we have a pretty awesome team, and a pretty awesome community.

#AlpineLinux

I think we have a pretty awesome team, and a pretty awesome community.

#AlpineLinux

a security fix in go and 597 packages needs to be rebuilt. what a nightmare

#AlpineLinux

@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.

@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!)

#caddy #web #alpinelinux

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!)

#caddy #web #alpinelinux

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