I couldn't figure out how to add my #matrix account to the Chats app, so that's why I fell back to using #irc
That said, I'm surprised the #gnome weather app worked... because it doesn't on normal #alpinelinux o_O.
I'll try to add my calendar and contacts later and see if I can make an actual phone call... crazy stuff :}
Updating from my #alpinelinux laptop... because typing on the #postmarketos #gnome shell is really challenging/unforgiving both in terms of latency and accuracy.
I was not a fan of #firefox, especially with the bottom address bar, so I used console to install #epiphany via:
$ doas apk add epiphany
Not only does epiphany look better on the phone, but it also allows me to install web apps, which I did for #thelounge, a web-based #irc client.
We'd like to welcome @fossdd and Mio as new Alpine Linux developers.
We really appreciate all the work they and the rest of the community have done.
But #AlpineLinux gets better and better .. go figure!
@Snoro
We talked about the roadmap for #AlpineLinux 3.23 yesterday. So far we have:
- apk-tools 3.0
- gcc 15
- python 3.13
- improve/clean up Alpine user handbook (we need volunteers for this)
See
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/17294 if you want help or have things you are working on that should be included.
We are planning to update apk-tools to 3.0 in edge repository on July 1, 2025.
We are keeping the apk 2 index and package formats for now, so everything *should* just work, but scripts parsing the output of apk may need to be adjusted.
Hey #Linux / #Mesa / #gallium folks,
I'm having a problem where I can't start any graphical user interface, whether it's wayland or x11 because the driver files given by mesa don't have the __driDriverExtensions symbol
Anyone know how to deal with this? I'm on #AlpineLinux / #AsahiLinux. If you have a lot of linux friends, feel free to boost!
@resingm I don’t think there are any books on Alpine Linux. What should such a book include or cover to be a great book?
Is there any great book on #AlpineLinux ? I love the concept, and love the considerations of the operating system. Yet, I usually opt for #Debian since I am much more familiar with it. It would be great to change that in the mid-term.
first linux regression in a while: an update from an #AlpineLinux package caused a driver .so file to be removed and now i can no longer run GDM, X11 or wayland
WizOS: A New Enterprise Linux Built on Alpine’s Secure Foundation
「 WizOS is engineered to address the persistent challenge of inherited vulnerabilities in container-based images. By adopting WizOS, enterprises can leverage a minimal, near-zero Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) base image, ensuring that deployments are not halted by security flaws in shared components 」
https://thenewstack.io/wizos-a-new-enterprise-linux-built-on-alpines-secure-foundation/
@jbz Currently, my self-hosted services and appliances rely on either #alpinelinux - utilizing OpenRC instead of systemd - or OpenWrt. With both I am relatively satisfied, and I have a feeling that I have my stuff under control.
FreeBSD is definitely on my watchlist for a no-nonsense OS. Once I have some time to spare, I‘m investigating how I could run niceties like paperless-ngx and immich on it.
I've enabled #OpenRC user services for Pipewire (pipewire
, pipewire-pulse
, wireplumber
) and D-Bus as dependency on #postmarketOS today. Works pretty well, but I had to patch phosh.desktop
to not start a new D-Bus session. Someone already reported the same issue to Alpine with Sway, I think ideally D-Bus would provide a wrapper script around dbus-run-session
(or an option) to only start a new session if there isn't one. Tinydm has a way to handle that, but simply removing the call entirely might break with other login managers.
I'm curious where OpenRC user services will go, I was thinking about switching to pmOS/systemd once that's ripened a bit more, but if OpenRC can manage user sessions, too, maybe not.
#AlpineLinux