#alpinelinux

@alpinelinux@fosstodon.org · Jul 25, 2026

It took a long time, but our #riscv64 builder managed to finish building the community packages. At the worst, it had a backlog of more than 800 packages, but it managed to churn along the last couple of weeks. We had it running on a HiFive P550 for a while. Even though it had faster cores, we had to move it back to the MilkV Pionieer. We're trying some other riscv64 systems as well, to see if they serve as better builders. #AlpineLinux

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Root Moose @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 22, 2026

Back at testing whether my RDNA3 card (7800 XT) will behave itself on this system. I'm running kernel 7.1.4 (Alpine linux-stable) so supposedly there are a bunch of fixes since 6.19 -> 7.0 -> 7.1.x. We'll see. Last hour has been solid. No screen artifacts or horizontal aberrations on terminal or web browser windows. When it did occasionally work adequately before it would hard crash to a green screen on one of the monitors after about 24 hours or so. Didn't matter what kernel parameters I put on the kernel cmd line. It's kind of weird as I've been running this card in a different system (same OS, different gen CPU/mobo) successfully but it is a single head system so maybe that's the difference. Some combinations of cobbled together junk just don't work in the PC space. Fingers crossed. #Linux #AMD #amdgpu #RDNA3 #AlpineLinux

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Root Moose @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Ok, I think I've got this display card under control - or so it seems. It hasn't crashed since Wednesday.

I guess this is a combo AMD RDNA3 Navi23 and KDE Plasma (+ Wayland?) bug...

I backed out all my Linux kernel command line switches for AMD GPUs and it crashed to green screen in less than a half hour. So, re-adding them stopped that from happening.

... amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x410 amdgpu.tmz=0 amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1 amdgpu.sg_display=0 ...

And then the cursor thing is fixed <?!> by adding

KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1

Currently this is what is set:

cat /proc/$(pidof kwin_wayland)/environ | tr '\0' '\n' | grep KWIN :

KWIN_DRM_NO_AMS=1 KWIN_DRM_NO_DIRECT_SCANOUT=1 KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR=1

From a user experience point of view I don't see any difference with that software cursor setting.

There's another wrinkle to this that might be a factor but I can't really test around it currently. This is a multi-head machine and one screen is connected via HDMI and one is DP.

Perhaps this wouldn't be a problem if both screens were connected via the same type of connector.

Both screens are set to the same refresh frequency. But, in the display control app one reads back at 60.00 Hz while the other is 60.000 Hz. Minor thing right? But in trying to make this work I've seen references to AMD GPU weirdness in multi-head configurations where the refresh rates were different between screens. Red herring perhaps.

Anyway, don't know if there are (or will be) any people trying to make a RX 5800 XT GPU behave under Linux but this seems to be what worked for me and my dual head setup. I'll update if anything changes.

#Linux #AMD #AMDGPU #KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #AlpineLinux #kwin #Wayland

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Alpine Linux

@alpinelinux@fosstodon.org · Jul 16, 2026

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org is having issues after performing an upgrade. Working on restoring it. #AlpineLInux

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GreyLinux @Greylinux@floss.social · Jul 10, 2026

What's the general feeling about Alpine Linux as a server OS for docker containers? I currently run Fedora coreOS with podman containers but I've had issues mostly from day one , most resolved now bit it still fights me at least once a week. Well its time for a drastic change. I've used Alpine as a desktop before, but only briefly, so I am familiar with some of it differences bit not all. Is it a good idea? #AlpineLinux #docker #server

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Natanael Copa @ncopa@fosstodon.org · Jun 23, 2026

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Seems like those RISC-V K3 machines with 32GB ram is sold out everywhere. Would love to have a couple of those for building Alpine Linux packages. Are there anyone who could help us with getting one or two of those? Preferable the pico-ITX. #AlpineLinux #RISCV

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Alpine Linux

@alpinelinux@fosstodon.org · Jun 21, 2026

The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of new stable releases:

3.22.5
3.23.5

These releases addresses the OpenSSL Security Advisory [9th June 2026] (https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt) with a number of CVEs.

See: https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.22.5-3.23.5-released.html

The docker images for these releases will follow.

#AlpineLinux

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Root Moose @RootMoose@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Jun 16, 2026

I love that feeling you get when you finish tuning your Linux desktop box with everything optimized and "just so" and nothing left to mess with or install. Colours, wallpaper, apps, hardware acceleration, menus, widgets/plasmoids, filesystems backed up, etc. Oh, that's just me? Never mind. Carry on. #Linux #AlpineLinux

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9to5Linux @9to5linux@floss.social · Jun 15, 2026

#Linux Weekly Roundup for June 14th, 2026: Linux kernel 7.1, #Flatpak 1.18, #digiKam 9.1, #AlpineLinux 3.24, #Ubuntu Desktop 26.10 daily builds, #fwupd 2.1.5, #COSMIC 1.0.16, #Audacity 3.7.8, #KDE Frameworks 6.27, #Peppermint OS Devuan, #GStreamer 1.28.4, Shelly 2.3.3, Ubuntu 25.10’s end of life, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-june-14th-2026 #OpenSource #FOSS #GNU

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Alpine Linux

@alpinelinux@fosstodon.org · Jun 13, 2026

The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.24.1, a maintenance release of the 3.24 series. It includes security fixes for OpenSSL, addressing the June 9, 2026 advisory: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt See https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.1-released.html for more information. #AlpineLinux

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jbz @jbz@indieweb.social · Jun 10, 2026

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Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option ｢ Alpine Linux 3.24 was christened today as for advancing this lightweight Linux distribution built around musl libc and Busybox. Alpine Linux 3.24 ships with installer improvements with setup-alpine now able to support the Limine boot loader and also having IPv6 handling support. There is also better handling for headless setups ｣ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-3.24 #alpinelinux #linux #cosmicde #opensource

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Alpine Linux

@alpinelinux@fosstodon.org · Jun 10, 2026

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.24.0, the first release in the v3.24 stable series. https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html The installer (setup-alpine) now supports limine as bootloader, and includes ipv6 support #AlpineLinux

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Alpine Linux

@alpinelinux@fosstodon.org · May 04, 2026

All our systems hosted at Linode are suspended at the moment due to some billing issue, including gitlab. We are working with them to get it resolved. #AlpineLinux

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Alpine Linux

@alpinelinux@fosstodon.org · May 01, 2026

Releases are still pending, but our repositories all received upgraded kernels to address copy.fail (CVE-2026-31431). So make sure you upgrade to the latest available kernels. edge: >= linux-lts-6.18.22 3.23: >= linux-lts-6.18.22 3.22: >= linux-lts-6.12.85 3.21: >= linux-lts-6.12.85 3.20: >= linux-lts-6.6.137 3.l9: >= linux-lts-6.6.137 3,18: >= linux-lts-6.1.170 3.17: >= linux-lts-5.15.204 #AlpineLinux #security

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Ariadne, bunyote friend

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems · Mar 04, 2026

a fairly detailed analysis of the california "age assurance bill" by fellow #AlpineLinux contributor @RunxiYu@social.treehouse.systems https://runxiyu.org/comp/ab1043/

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Ariadne, bunyote friend

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems · Mar 04, 2026

Replying to @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems

in practice i think it does not really concern #AlpineLinux the intent of this law is clearly to go after operating systems with app stores

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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 05, 2026

Replying to on social.treehouse.systems

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems It concerns #AlpineLinux the same as it concerns every other Linux-based operating system that has a package management utility that talks to a public WWW site. As I said at https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116156019252249071 and as @RunxiYu has also said, the statute as written covers all such systems. (It's an Act now, by the way, not a Bill.) Alpine Linux has a covered application store. Here, for example, is what 'publicly available internet website' apk as the 'software application' uses to 'facilitate the download' of the third-party rustc 'application' from the 'store' in Alpine Linux on the aforementioned #mainframes used by the aforementioned naughty 16-year-olds in #California: https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main/s390x/ Yes, #CaliforniaLaw as written is this expansive. Yes, the legislators did not even consider how the BSDs and Linux-based operating systems work. None of the objectors apparently even mentioned how these work. #rust #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR #FreeSoftware #Unix

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Root Moose @RootMoose@mstdn.ca · Feb 01, 2026

One full week under the keel running Alpine Linux on my primary workstation. Even set root on a ZFS mirror - simple to setup. First experience with rEFInd as well - I like it. Sharp and snappy, just like the way I like my cars! Ha! No new revelations compared to the first few weeks on the test workstation... I'm still tweaking some things for personalization as it happens but all good. The Alpine repos are full of good stuff and are current/up2date in a practical manner. The only flatpaks I've had to run are Waterfox, Signal Desktop and messing around with the new CoMaps Linux version (this exists - happy! happy! joy! joy!). I'm going to migrate my Debian Bookworm servers to Alpine when I get around to the upgrades. I'll keep clients on Debian for the foreseeable future. I'm not sure why I'm so excited about Alpine, it just feels like a breathe of fresh air! Modern and simple. Enjoying it. #AlpineLinux #Linux #desktop #homelab #SelfHosted #Waterfox #Comaps #rEFInd

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