#alpinelinux

I have a #Thinkcentre with #OpenBSD. It serves as a host for all my repos. My two laptops, an old #x240 with #alpinelinux and the #t480s with #netbsd, I use for programming. I pull a repo to the laptop of the day, and push when I'm done. Because of the recent issues with #SSH on #alpinelinux I changed all three machines to work with #sshkeys instead of passwords as of yesterday. Apart from the security aspect, it has the added benefit that I don't have to key in my crazy long password whenever I #push or just use #ssh to do cross machine activity. Why didn't I do this long ago?

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Urgent: Immediately set 'PasswordAuthentication no' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart the sshd service. Make sure you have ssh key authentication or other ways to access your machines. Also make sure to update openssh to the latest version. The openssh fix will be backported all the way back to Alpine 3.16 https://openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6p2 #security #AlpineLinux

I have so many issues with #unbound on my laptop while travelling that I'm tempted to port #unwind from #openbsd to #alpinelinux. Please help, I already have too many projects.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

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

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

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

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

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

a fairly detailed analysis of the california "age assurance bill" by fellow #AlpineLinux contributor @RunxiYu@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