Mastodawn

As said before musl-based AlpineLinux really rocks. Of course running all required stuff, like a full KDE session, a firewall and podman (for distrobox), flatpak for all 'bigger' applications and still clocking in at 903Mb. For me that shows how lean everything has been put together. Cool.
#alpinelinux #archlabs

Natanael Copa 8h ago

I just pushed python 3.14 to alpine linux edge. It will keep the builders busy for a while to rebuild the 1900+ packages. There will probably be some inconsistency between main and community (we upload main before starting to build community). Hopefully it will not cause too much pain.

Thanks for your patience!

#AlpineLinux #Python

𝐩fᵣ 1d ago

My current desktop
#alpinelinux
#wayland
#neuwm

Details: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixart/s/pKLH9rWf73

#screenshot #screenshotsaturday #unixporn #unixart

Mark 2d ago

You have that gnarly application that only comes in rpm, deb and AppImage. Then you suddenly remember Distrobox. And AlpineLinux is made for these setups. Tests finished, I'll finally be able to run KDE with all my required apps on Alpine! #alpinelinux #archlabs

patter 3d ago

Time to learn a new distribution, installing #alpinelinux

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Lynx 3d ago

@thomholwerda I'd also love to know this. Alpine has been pretty cool when I've used it (mostly in containers) and I'd love to try it as a desktop OS.

#alpinelinux #wayland

Root Moose 4d ago

Sometime around 2017 (IIRC) I got nostalgic for a little "netbook" type computer and decided, for some reason, that an HP Stream 14 would scratch that itch.

These are really low spec machines, even for 2016-2017. It came with Windows 10 and the first Windows Update basically filled the disk and effectively bricked the device. LOL!

I installed Linux on it after that (ofc) but didn't really use it much. So slow....

I was digging around in my service manuals library this evening and stumbled over it in a drawer of files... for some unknown reason it was in the drawer.

I started it up thinking it was still running Arch from back before Covid and might be entertaining to try to get it to update to the present.

Hmm, Alpine 3.21 boots console but sway is installed. Weird, no recollection of doing anything with this machine 12-18 months ago. "I'm not saying it's aliens..."

Ok, Alpine updates to 3.23 without issues. I'm not much of a tiling window manager person so I installed Plasma. Bad idea! With 4GB of ram and an afterthought of a CPU and storage it doesn't run very well at all.

Installed LXQt with labwc and it runs great! Tweaking and themeing to come. (Hi @Tionisla 👋 )

Not sure what I'm going to do with this machine but currently it is pretty usable for simple stuff. Screen and keyboard sucks, pretty close to e-waste. Lesson: ~$200 (retail) laptop is about as good as you would expect a $200 laptop to be. Ha.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #LXQt #netbook #labwc #windows #Windows10