Mastodawn

@itsfoss well, it’s more like a life path. I started out with Alpine (very lean but hard to configure), tried Ubuntu (too much of a walled garden feeling), Manjaro (sexy, but breaks with almost every update) and finally settled on Debian. Boring, stable, dependable.

Tried some others as well (one night stands) but all just too short to make an impression.

#linux #alpinelinux #ubuntu #manjaro #debian

jbz 1d ago

🐧 Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/24/alpine-linux-324-scales-new-desktop-heights-with-cosmic/5259985

#alpinelinux #cosmicde #opensource

Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC

Plus interesting news from the Xfce-on-Wayland project

theregister

Dualtronic 1d ago

Just tried #AlpineLinux for the first time in a while. The installer is getting convenient now. It even sets up a wheel user, complete with doas access. Had less luck with X.org, but screen on a framebuffer is plenty comfortable for use in QEMU.

ROllerozxa 2d ago

Progress update on Principia touch support: All TMS_BACKEND_PC (and _MOBILE) compile-time ifdefs that primarily gated touch code exclusive to Android are now completely gone!

Now your experience on touchscreen Linux devices should be about on par with the Android version of Principia when you tick "Enable touch controls" in the settings. This also goes well with the new `use_gles` in settings.ini to switch to OpenGL ES without recompiling!

New release coming soon but I would appreciate if people could also build and test master to see if I've missed anything (we've also upgraded to #SDL3 so plenty that can go wrong). I should hopefully also try to get Principia packaged in #AlpineLinux in time for the next release. You know where I'm going with this! :) (ooo... #postmarketOS ...)

#foss #opensource #gaming #mobilelinux #linuxmobile

Natanael Copa 4d ago

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

بجاد الأثري 5d ago

أطلق نظام التشغيل postmarketOS إصداراً جديداً يحمل الاسم الرمزي "Alpen Avocado" والمبني على توزيعة Alpine Linux 3.24. يقدم هذا التحديث ترقيات هامة لواجهات المستخدم المتنوعة مثل GNOME 50 وKDE Plasma Mobile، بالإضافة إلى تحسينات في عملية الإقلاع باستخدام Plymouth لتقديم رسوم متحركة واستجابة لمسية. كما يتضمن النظام تحديثات جوهرية للنواة ودعماً للبث الخلوي، مع اعتماد أداة sudo-rs لإدارة الصلاحيات افتراضياً لتحسين الأمان والأداء العام للأجهزة المحمولة المدعومة.

#postmarketOS #AlpineLinux #Linux

Bryce 5d ago

I’m not sure about anybody else, but, sometimes, package formats can seem confusing, such as a #macos pkg and a #freebsd pkg, or even an apk for #alpinelinux and the old #Android apk.

Natanael Copa 5d ago

Spent a couple fo days getting the Alpine linux-lts kernel to boot from SD card on radxa rock 5T. Turns out that we already have all the modules we need, but in addition to the rockchip SPI/MFD/regulator modules, we also need to manually load clk-scmi and mmc-block. I'm gonna build clk-scmi into kernel instead of module and things should "just work", given the needed modules are included in initramfs.

#AlpineLinux #ARM