GHC 9.14 is now available in the Alpine Linux Edge repository. This is the first-ever LTS release of the Haskell compiler and will be supported at least until late 2028, I have high hopes that it will serve us well for the next few Alpine releases.

#AlpineLinux #Haskell

It took a long time, but our #riscv64 builder managed to finish building the community packages. At the worst, it had a backlog of more than 800 packages, but it managed to churn along the last couple of weeks.

We had it running on a HiFive P550 for a while. Even though it had faster cores, we had to move it back to the MilkV Pionieer.

We're trying some other riscv64 systems as well, to see if they serve as better builders.

#AlpineLinux

A couple of weeks ago the riscv64 edge builder had ~300 packages to build to catch up.

I moved the builder from Hifive Premiere p550 to Milk-v Pioneer this week because it has not been able to catch up since the 3.24 release.

Yesterday it was 500+

Now it is 811.

I am setting up the Spacemit K3 but somehow I doubt it will be enough. We need to fix the build infra to scale horizontally.

#AlpineLinux #RISCV

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org is having issues after performing an upgrade. Working on restoring it.

#AlpineLInux

Seems like it's been a busy week for the Alpine devs.

This weekend the repo upgrades linux-stable from 7.0.10 > 7.1.3; Plasma from 6.6.5 > 6.6.6. I'll be keeping an eye on the later. Ha.

Maybe I'll take a swipe at trying the 7800 XT (RDNA3) card in my main machine again to see if things have improved. It's too nice out to be screwing around in the lab today.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #AMDGPU

It's insane that some #alpinelinux maintainers will (rightly so) passionately advocate against technologies that consume large amounts of energy for questionable benefit, but OTOH insist that we enable things like COSMIC on fucking s390x and thus spend many many *many* hours compiling packages on power hungry s390x systems for a mainframe CPU arch that no one would ever run a modern UI on 🤣

Crazy but not completely unlikely:

"... and with this Alpine Linux could become the most popular version of Linux in the World"

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1um4n4k/linux_has_won_os_race/

#AlpineLinux

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

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

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

- 3.22.5
- 3.23.5

These releases addresses the OpenSSL Security Advisory [9th June 2026] (https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt), with a number of CVEs.

See: https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.22.5-3.23.5-released.html

The docker images for these releases will follow.

#AlpineLinux

Hello everyone after a long time! Hope you're all doing great, I've missed this community :)

My internet is finally back to a relatively stable state, which means I can jump back into my old passion projects!

I recently saw that a native ARM64 beta port of the Steam client was released, and I knew it was the perfect time to test it on my Linux phone.

I'm currently running #postmarketOS with #PlasmaMobile on my PocoPhone F1. Since pmOS is based on Alpine, it uses musl libc, which doesn't support running these binaries natively. To bypass this, I set up an Ubuntu 24.04 #Distrobox container and installed the ARM64 Steam client along with box64 and box86. The process wasn't as straightforward as some guides suggest (like the one below); I had to do some extra tweaking. I'll definitely write a detailed blog post or a postmarketOS wiki entry about it soon!

🔗 https://interfacinglinux.com/community/sbcsoftware/native-steam-client-for-arm-linux/

I managed to boot Steam into Big Picture mode and went straight to setting up Proton.

Note: The Proton 11 ARM64 mentioned in the link didn't work for me, so I used Proton Experimental instead.

I paired my PS4 controller via Bluetooth, and it worked flawlessly out of the box! For the gaming test, I downloaded Crab Game (kept it lightweight due to my strict data limits).

Against all odds, it actually launched! Running via Proton Experimental + Box64/86 inside Distrobox on my phone, I managed to get a relatively playable 20-30 FPS. Linux mobile gaming is getting wild! 🐧🎮

#LinuxMobile #SteamARM64 #GamingOnLinux #AlpineLinux

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Crab Game running on #PocoF1 with #PostmarketOS via distorbox, box64 and proton

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Poco F1 downloading CrabGame

I love that feeling you get when you finish tuning your Linux desktop box with everything optimized and "just so" and nothing left to mess with or install. Colours, wallpaper, apps, hardware acceleration, menus, widgets/plasmoids, filesystems backed up, etc.

Oh, that's just me?

Never mind. Carry on.

#Linux #AlpineLinux

I'm gonna do a community office hours style today, June 15 at 18:00-19:00 UTC (20:00-21:00 CEST). I will answer any Alpine Linux related questions. If there are no questions I will close it early.

Welcome!

https://meet.jit.si/NatanaelsCorner

#AlpineLinux

Alpine Linux Merchandise... Does it exist?

Quick search shows some random stuff around but no indication that any proceeds get back to the project.

Don't see anything called out on the website but I could be blind.

#Linux #AlpineLinux

The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.24.1, a maintenance release of the 3.24 series.

It includes security fixes for OpenSSL, addressing the June 9, 2026 advisory: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt

See https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.1-released.html for more information.

#AlpineLinux

Anyone know why using sftp with Dolphin in Plasma is so slow in Alpine Linux?

Using Debian, doing the same thing is like greased lightning.

It's not network, ssh/scp/rsync/sftp command line works wicked fast between hosts with Alpine.

Something about Alpine and Plasma it seems. This has been an on-going thing.

Anyone know a workaround, beside using a different protocol I mean? This should "just work" like on other distros.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #Alpine #Plasma #KDE #KDEPlasma #Dolphin #sftp

#AlpineLinux

Installer improvements

The installer (setup-alpine) now supports the Limine boot loader and has gained #IPv6 support. When installing from a serial console, the boot loader and kernel will automatically be configured with serial console support, making headless setups smoother.

https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.24.0, the first release in the v3.24 stable series.

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.24.0-released.html

The installer (setup-alpine) now supports limine as bootloader, and includes ipv6 support

#AlpineLinux

Alpine Linux 3.24.0 is finally out. It was an uphill battle. and we already need start work on 3.24.1 due to fresh security issues.

#AlpineLinux

It's currently just a simplified version of my existing blog, but I'm hosting this website on my Raspberry Pi Zero for testing purposes:

https://fsck.lol

We will see how things go over time, then possible port over the "real" thing 😛

#raspberrypi #nginx #alpinelinux #selfHosting

Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Release Candidate 1 is tagged.

The install scripts has support for ipv6, Limine boot loader and has got lots of man pages. serial console should also be set up in boot loader if you install from serial console. Raspberry pi now uses 6.18 kernel.

Please help us test!

https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.24/releases/

#AlpineLinux

Good news: version v3.24.0_rc1 has been tagged. Build artifacts should appear soon.

Please test and report any issues.

#AlpineLinux

It took some time and effort, but the Alpine Linux riscv64 builder finally managed to churn through all the packages.

This means Alpine Linux 3.24 is imminent. Expect the first RC soon.

#AlpineLinux

We still have 400+ packages to build for riscv64 before we can do first release candidate of Alpine Linux 3.24.

#AlpineLinux

We were without power for ~18 hours yesterday, but I’m still determined to eventually switch hosting my personal blog over to my local Raspberry Pi Zero

https://hermes.btxx.org/

#alpinelinux #raspberrypi #selfHosting

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

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