@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
boosted
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.
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
phildini
and 2 others
boosted
We are simplifying the Alpine developer onboarding process.
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-08-30-new-alpine-developers-process.html
We are simplifying the Alpine developer onboarding process.
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-08-30-new-alpine-developers-process.html
deutrino
boosted
Our lead relay engineer @alexhaydock has increased our stateless #Tor exit relay deployment to 96! (+1 because of the new #RISCV bare-metal node, +1 other we redeployed due to a silly spelling error). We're stress testing our three AMD Epyc 7402P servers that use #Proxmox.
Each one of the 96 Tor exit nodes are diskless Unified Kernel Images, 56MB in total size, using @alpinelinux's alpine-make-rootfs with an absolutely bare minimum number of packages. We'll be publishing more about our new architecture and configuration soon.
#AlpineLinux #privacy #anonymity#AntiCensorship#AccessToInformation#TorOps#TorOperators
Proxmox host 1 performance snapshot showing 42% CPU usage and 85% RAM usage
Proxmox host 2 performance snapshot showing 8% CPU usage and 85% RAM usage
Proxmox host 3 performance snapshot showing 3% CPU usage and 85% RAM usage
a listing of Emerald Onion's Tor exit relays as displayed on metrics.torproject.org when searching by ASN. "Showing 1 to 10 of 98 entries"
Our lead relay engineer @alexhaydock has increased our stateless #Tor exit relay deployment to 96! (+1 because of the new #RISCV bare-metal node, +1 other we redeployed due to a silly spelling error). We're stress testing our three AMD Epyc 7402P servers that use #Proxmox.
Each one of the 96 Tor exit nodes are diskless Unified Kernel Images, 56MB in total size, using @alpinelinux's alpine-make-rootfs with an absolutely bare minimum number of packages. We'll be publishing more about our new architecture and configuration soon.
#AlpineLinux #privacy #anonymity#AntiCensorship#AccessToInformation#TorOps#TorOperators
Proxmox host 1 performance snapshot showing 42% CPU usage and 85% RAM usage
Proxmox host 2 performance snapshot showing 8% CPU usage and 85% RAM usage
Proxmox host 3 performance snapshot showing 3% CPU usage and 85% RAM usage
a listing of Emerald Onion's Tor exit relays as displayed on metrics.torproject.org when searching by ASN. "Showing 1 to 10 of 98 entries"
🐧 Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default • Phoronix
@jbz the direction #Alpinelinux appears to be going and some of the project's decisions are making it a little harder to love.
🐧 Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default • Phoronix
apk-tools 3 was merged to #AlpineLinux edge. Hold on to your hats!
Some of the new things are listed here:
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/82593#note_520288
@resingm I don’t think there are any books on Alpine Linux. What should such a book include or cover to be a great book?
Is there any great book on #AlpineLinux ? I love the concept, and love the considerations of the operating system. Yet, I usually opt for #Debian since I am much more familiar with it. It would be great to change that in the mid-term.
WizOS: A New Enterprise Linux Built on Alpine’s Secure Foundation
｢ WizOS is engineered to address the persistent challenge of inherited vulnerabilities in container-based images. By adopting WizOS, enterprises can leverage a minimal, near-zero Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) base image, ensuring that deployments are not halted by security flaws in shared components ｣
https://thenewstack.io/wizos-a-new-enterprise-linux-built-on-alpines-secure-foundation/
OpenRC user services are now a thing in Alpine and I'm migrating many things I had fragile shell scripts start.
An added benefit is that my sessions in bare ttys have proper services running too!
Here's a more detailed rundown of how to use Waypipe to remotely control graphical applications between Wayland hosts:
🐧 Life Without systemd: For Real Use Cases