Mastodawn

@RootMoose already have done with the no DKMS pkg as part of #alpinelinux (and one painful DKMS install on #voidlinux). So far, all good.

Foolish Owlbear

1d ago

Did a fresh install of #AlpineLinux. Switched to Edge to have an updated #Plasma desktop, and everything was great. So I set up #NetworkManager because wpa_supplicant makes me want to punch kittens whenever I have to use something other than my home network. Which worked great.

Start my laptop this morning, though, and it won't get pas starting the display manager during boot.

*sigh*

So… now I get to manually fix some config files or something I guess. Shoulda gone with #XFCE…

(Before anyone jumps on me, I obviously fucked up something in the configuration, this isn't #KDE's fault, and I 100% own that this is my fault. As usual, the Owlbear should not be taken seriously.) #Linux

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EF 2d ago

@sylvie @kzimmermann ZFS is good on #alpinelinux with or without encryption. It is not hard to install.

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Klaus Zimmermann

3d ago

@sylvie hey there! For #AlpineLinux, I just go with the standard LUKS full disk encryption that's offered by the installer script. Nothing fancy, just something that's simple and fast to set up, costs me nothing and works for me.

But to be frank: I have no idea about the algorithm it uses or anything else under the hood. Surely it can be tweaked, even at the script's level, but if you need to set up something more specific to your use case, I'm afraid I can't help. But have a boost; hopefully somebody more well versed in FDE can help!

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EF 3d ago

@r3spawndbae @aartaka the most modern laptop I have is an x230. It runs #alpinelinux (one runs #voidlinux) easily (lots of free RAM and low CPU usage) with a Firefox clone, Libreoffice, fullscreen video, even Roblox via a Flatpak with ease. It is 100% repairable with lots of spares available. For most/many users, that's all they need.

Mr. GM 4d ago

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.

#Homelab #dialup #AlpineLinux #Debian

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Mr. GM 4d ago

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.

#AlpineLinux

some quirky girl 5d ago

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?

#ipv6 #alpinelinux

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