Our lead relay engineer @alexhaydock has increased our stateless #Tor exit relay deployment to 96! (+1 because of the new #RISCV bare-metal node, +1 other we redeployed due to a silly spelling error). We're stress testing our three AMD Epyc 7402P servers that use #Proxmox.

Each one of the 96 Tor exit nodes are diskless Unified Kernel Images, 56MB in total size, using @alpinelinux's alpine-make-rootfs with an absolutely bare minimum number of packages. We'll be publishing more about our new architecture and configuration soon.

#AlpineLinux #privacy #anonymity #AntiCensorship #AccessToInformation #TorOps #TorOperators

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a listing of Emerald Onion's Tor exit relays as displayed on metrics.torproject.org when searching by ASN. "Showing 1 to 10 of 98 entries"

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Proxmox host 3 performance snapshot showing 3% CPU usage and 85% RAM usage

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Proxmox host 2 performance snapshot showing 8% CPU usage and 85% RAM usage

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Proxmox host 1 performance snapshot showing 42% CPU usage and 85% RAM usage

@xgebi @maxleibman

#AlpineLinux is non-gnu as well.

Busybox/Linux?

I think we have a pretty awesome team, and a pretty awesome community.

#AlpineLinux

Sorry, I am busy like a busybox. #alpinelinux

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Screenshot from an alpine linux dist update. Resource is busy because of busybox.

We finally got Alpine Llinux 3.23 out the door. It comes with 6.18 (LTS) kernel and zfs-2.4.0-rc4 (just like FreeBSD 15...). You may want verify that you have backup before upgrade if you use ZFS.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed one way or the other.

#AlpineLinux

Alpine Linux 3.23.0 Released 🎉

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.23.0, the first release in the v3.23 stable series.

Which includes
- apk-tools version 3
- linux-stable replacing linux-edge
- Any many other changes

Thanks to all the contributors helping to get this released!

We also want to thank the new sponsors that stepped in after Equinix Metal sunsetted:

- Cherry Servers
- Netmountains
- Osso B.V.
- CloudOn
- HorizonIQ

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.23.0-released.html

#AlpineLinux

a security fix in go and 597 packages needs to be rebuilt. what a nightmare

#AlpineLinux

Alpine Linux 3.23.0 RC2 is out. This comes with the 6.18 kernel and zfs-2.4.0-rc4. Please test and report back!

This is hopefully the last release candidate.

#AlpineLinux

linux-lts-6.18.0-r1 has ext4 enabled everywhere, and xfs online repair.

#AlpineLinux

linux-lts kernel upgraded to 6.18.0

Please wait with upgrading if you use zfs.

#AlpineLinux

thankfully, #alpinelinux 3.23 will not ship with the usr-merge-nag feature enabled.

we will work in the 3.24 iteration to make usr-merge happen in a safe way

made all 3rd party kernel modules build with 6.18-rc7. Now lets see if 6.18.0 comes out this weekend as promised.

#AlpineLinux

The first release candidate for #AlpineLinux 3.23.0 is out

https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/releases/

The #AlpineLinux 3.23 builders has completed the builds. Will tag rc1 tomorrow.

getting closer #AlpineLinux 3.23 rc1. Only riscv64 and ppc64le builders left. riscv64 is just slow, and lots of ppc64le stuff appears to be broken

The first architecture to complete the 3.23 builds is: loongarch64!

#AlpineLinux

Made a minor update on https://caddy.ninja/ to include "spam_and_bot_block" section

(Also now hosted on Alpine Linux VPS running Caddy - how meta!)

#caddy #web #alpinelinux

do not run the #alpinelinux merge-usr script if you want `apk info -W <file>` to keep working properly

We are trying get the #AlpineLinux 3.23 builds complete so we tag first release candidate.

Things getting in the way for that risk to get nuked at this point.

Special thanks to those of you who help fix build issues rather than introduce new breakages!

Hello, decided to log back into Mastodon as the bus to my town seems to have stopped a minute away from here for 20 minutes now. I have a few status updates regarding my tech adventures to share.

Firstly, I installed postmarketOS on a Samsung Galaxy S9 a few months ago, and with it, I moved to Alpine Linux on my laptop and desktop. The experience has been wonderful, but bumpy. It works really well on my laptop, but my desktop has faced some issues which I am happy to post on their mailing list once I am back home.

I also installed Arch Linux alongside my Alpine Linux installation as a redundant backup option in case one ends up broken by an update, or a mistake of my own. This has proven handy twice now, the second time ending up with my main system still under maintenance as of today. I also have a reserve Linux Mint USB, if it gets really bad, but I remain hopeful that it won't get that bad. Just for assurance, my ego has not inflated after installing it.

I still love using OpenBSD and FreeBSD when I can, but I deemed it more logical to use the operating system based off the kernel I want to develop for in the future. I plan on using OpenBSD on systems that I find to be not essential to use all the time, such as my brothers desktop, but I'm kind of bringing myself to use Alpine Linux on my daily drivers.

Sorry for disappearing for a while, this is a new phone which I forgot to install Mastodon on. My old phone drowned after my water bottle leaked during a walk, which meant I had to start over from scratch. I'm still addicted to Pixel phones however. Thanks for making a great operating system, #grapheneos team.

#OpenBSD #freebsd #alpinelinux #archlinux #BSD #Linux #technology #postmarketos

The builders for 3.23 are up and running!

#AlpineLinux

Cloud images for these releases are now available as well.

https://www.alpinelinux.org/cloud/

#AlpineLinux

We're happy to announce that Alpine 3.19.9, 3.20.8, 3.21.5 and 3.22.2 are released.

These updates include security fixes for OpenSSL addressing the September 30, 2025 advisory (CVE-2025-9230, CVE-2025-9231, CVE-2025-9232).

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.19.9-3.20.8-3.21.5-3.22.2-released.html

#AlpineLinux

@ncopa congratulations, despite the protestations from some. Please consider keeping a genuine X server. #AlpineLinux is a very good distro.

One slightly weird thing I had is that inbound #ipv6 traffic on both SSH and HTTPS was returning a "connection reset by peer" for a while. It seems to be working now, but if some IPv6 folks can check https://cablespaghetti.dev loads properly over v6 for them now, it would put my mind at rest.

https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-fediverse-instance-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html

#snac #snac2 #alpinelinux #linux #raspberrypi

https://cablespaghetti.dev/hosting-a-static-site-on-an-original-raspberry-pi.html

#raspberrypi #alpinelinux #linux

Here's a script to backup to Backblaze B2 with just Jq as an additional dependency (and the included curl, tar, openssl etc.). It works so far...

https://gist.github.com/cablespaghetti/01862b9d8252223719cbe2586145f686