All of that is not a knock on Alpine Linux! I'm currently running a VM with Debian and Webmin to run my Samba share. After reading some Alpine Linux documentation, I really think I could just move that Samba share to a tiny Alpine Linux VM instead and use even less resources.
It's just that Alpine Linux is apparently the wrong tool for the job for my dial-up project.
Additional note: Alpine Linux does not have a working version of the mgetty command. Trying to install it does not work. I started on Alpine Linux and moved to Debian once Alpine didn't work, and then I spent the day figuring out Debian's idiosyncrasies.
how do i convince Alpine Linux that it doesn't have IPv4 connectivity? when i run e.g. "ping bbc.co.uk", it picks the IPv4 address first, even though it doesn't have a default route.
i can't disable IPv4 because i need it for Wireguard.
i can't use /etc/gai.conf because musl libc doesn't support that.
this makes e.g. apk very slow because it waits for IPv4 to time out before it tries IPv6. i don't understand why it doesn't immediately get "no route to host" over IPv4...
any ideas?
@thesaigoneer And that despite me doing the work all alone 🙈 Luckily KDE is an awesome upstream to work with and they make it a breeze!
I would also recommend trying out the session on postmarketOS, still Alpine Linux but with all the systemd goodies.
@ptribble thank you for the reply.
My error re nfs... probably getting Tribblix confused with Open/NetBSD.
The emcryption would be interesting. Perhaps even if it was only data partitions encrypted for now and auto unlockable then root/FDE later. Not sure if #alpinelinux or #ChimeraLinux would be a useful starting point as both do native encrypted zfs.
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went full nerd mode on self-hosting git — starting from bare repos & SSH, through gitolite, all the way to a full gitea install on alpine linux 🏔️
also roasted gitlab (lovingly), compared gitea vs forgejo vs gogs vs the whole gang
spoiler: gitea won. it's written in go. you already know.
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