Anyone had success running Distrobox (Debian/Ubuntu vm) under Alpine Linux to get Blender with Cycles/HIP support working on an Alpine host? Something I gotta try...

#Linux #Alpine #AlpineLinux #Blender #ROCm #AMD #HIP #Distrobox #Podman #Docker

Anyone using NodeJS willing to help upstream support Alpine/musl so it can be promoted to a tier 2 platform?

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/62764

https://github.com/nodejs/admin/issues/1065

#nodeJS #AlpineLinux

Alpine Linux and PostmarketOS conference sponsoring:

https://opencollective.com/alpinelinux/updates/alpine-linux-and-postmarketos-conference-sponsoring

#AlpineLinux

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide - on moving to Alpine Linux.

#gemini #geminiprotocol #gopher #gopherprotocol #alpine #alpinelinux

gopher://mikekreuzer.com:70/1/posts/nowhere-to-run/

gemini://mikekreuzer.com/posts/nowhere-to-run.gmi

I genuinely adore Alpine Linux. One of the main reasons I work on postmarketOS is because its based on Alpine. I think it is has a very well-designed base stack and I like musl. I actually ran Alpine Linux on my main machine for a bit before systemd was added to pmOS. I rarely have bad experiences with the developers and the community is generally kind. There's always some bad apples, like in all communities, but in general, Alpine's quite good.

#AlpineLinux

@nube we don't have backports because we don't need them. instead, use tagged repositories to scope packages from alpine edge:

# cat /etc/apk/repositories
...
@edge:main https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main
@edge:community https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community
# apk add nano@edge:main
(1/1) Installing nano@edge:main (9.0-r0)

#AlpineLinux

the #dirtyfrag exploit does not run successfully on alpine because the path to the donor SUID binary is hardcoded as /usr/bin/su.

changing that to /bin/bbsuid allows the exploit to run, but it hangs for me on linux-lts 6.18.27.

interestingly, openpax kernels kill the exploit early in the exploit chain.

either way, 6.18.28 fixes it for everyone.

but it goes to show the danger of #SUID binaries and why SUID-less solutions like #capsudo are important.

#alpinelinux

Finally got around to finishing this post:

"Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM"

https://btxx.org/posts/memory/

#alpinelinux #raspberrypi #nginx #web #ram

All our systems hosted at Linode are suspended at the moment due to some billing issue, including gitlab. We are working with them to get it resolved.

#AlpineLinux

Releases are still pending, but our repositories all received upgraded kernels to address copy.fail (CVE-2026-31431).

So make sure you upgrade to the latest available kernels.

edge: >= linux-lts-6.18.22
3.23: >= linux-lts-6.18.22
3.22: >= linux-lts-6.12.85
3.21: >= linux-lts-6.12.85
3.20: >= linux-lts-6.6.137
3.19: >= linux-lts-6.6.137
3.18: >= linux-lts-6.1.170
3.17: >= linux-lts-5.15.204

#AlpineLinux #security

to advance the alpine AI policy conversation, i have proposed simply aligning alpine's AI policy with the one introduced in postmarketOS.

it is good enough for now.

#alpinelinux

oh, great, alpine linux VMs are about to be represented as indications of compromise by shitty security scanners

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/payouts-king-ransomware-uses-qemu-vms-to-bypass-endpoint-security/

#alpinelinux

@witix next time use the #AlpineLinux hashtag :)

Wi-Fi works finally, but since switching to edge, the boot process ends at Starting Display Manager [OK] and then just sits there indefinitely. If I switch to a different console with ctrl + alt + F1 and then start sddm manually, it works fine.

Any #AlpineLinux people have any idea?

Testing out a fun experiment of running a variation of my existing website locally.

What's cool about it?

- Served off a Raspberry Pi Zero 1.3
- Running entirely in RAM (thanks Alpine!)
- Web server -> darkhttpd
- Has a tiny ~$4/year VPS in front of it handling the TLS termination

I'm sure things will explode if too many visitors slammed the poor little Pi, but I think regular traffic would be completely fine ;)

If interested: https://zero.btxx.org

PS. sorry if it falls over!

#raspberrypi #alpinelinux

The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the availability of new stable releases:

3.20.10
3.21.7
3.22.4
3.23.4

These releases include security fixes across core components.

musl (2 CVEs)
openssl (6 CVEs)
zlib (2 CVEs)

See https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.10-3.21.7-3.22.4-3.23.4-released.html for more details

#AlpineLinux

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

A tool that doesn't get enough love is the KDE "ISO Image Writer".

Sure there's dd and there's tools like Rufus, Etcher, and whatnot, but if it's effectively a tool meant for your platform then why not?

[ Currently writing Alpine v3.23 to a stick to wipe/replace my garage 'droid from Debian to Alpine after work ]

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma #AlpineLinux #iso #iso9660 #USBStick

https://apps.kde.org/isoimagewriter/

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