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I tried a bit more Linux distro investigation, and I think I just should have listened to @hipsterelectron in the first place.
TL;DR: If you want to run Linux without systemd, with something other than GNOME as a desktop (which is implied if you don't want systemd), and if you're comfortable with using the command line for installation, Alpine Linux is a great choice. The default install has zero systemd.
Yes, it's a command-line install, but it's far easier to install than Gentoo. The core OS install was so fast that I thought it had failed. Once I had that sorted and had installed a few support items, the setup-desktop script installed the whole of KDE and Wayland in a couple of minutes. I rebooted and everything worked. It even got the high DPI screen's resolution right for both KDE and sddm, which literally no other distro I've tried has managed.
A lack of bloat doesn't just make Alpine good for containers, it's also really responsive in general use. (Which is how computers ought to be with modern hardware.)
The package manager is nice. Think APT, but much faster. It automatically keeps a separate record of what you've actually asked to install versus dependencies that were dragged in, for easy automatic bloat removal.
Downsides:
- No proprietary Nvidia driver available, you need to use nouveau, so no CUDA or high performance gaming.
- Documentation (including installation) is scattered in pieces on a wiki.
- A lot less stuff prepackaged for you than Debian. Check https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/ to see if things you need are available.
- You'll need to get used to some things being different thanks to use of busybox, no sudo, no bash by default, and so on.My conclusion: Command line user? Try Alpine. Everyone else? Use Debian, and hope they move away from systemd.
I might revise this opinion if things break a lot during regular updates (hello Fedora), time will tell. #AlpineLinux #Linux
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I tried a bit more Linux distro investigation, and I think I just should have listened to @hipsterelectron in the first place.
TL;DR: If you want to run Linux without systemd, with something other than GNOME as a desktop (which is implied if you don't want systemd), and if you're comfortable with using the command line for installation, Alpine Linux is a great choice. The default install has zero systemd.
Yes, it's a command-line install, but it's far easier to install than Gentoo. The core OS install was so fast that I thought it had failed. Once I had that sorted and had installed a few support items, the setup-desktop script installed the whole of KDE and Wayland in a couple of minutes. I rebooted and everything worked. It even got the high DPI screen's resolution right for both KDE and sddm, which literally no other distro I've tried has managed.
A lack of bloat doesn't just make Alpine good for containers, it's also really responsive in general use. (Which is how computers ought to be with modern hardware.)
The package manager is nice. Think APT, but much faster. It automatically keeps a separate record of what you've actually asked to install versus dependencies that were dragged in, for easy automatic bloat removal.
Downsides:
- No proprietary Nvidia driver available, you need to use nouveau, so no CUDA or high performance gaming.
- Documentation (including installation) is scattered in pieces on a wiki.
- A lot less stuff prepackaged for you than Debian. Check https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/ to see if things you need are available.
- You'll need to get used to some things being different thanks to use of busybox, no sudo, no bash by default, and so on.My conclusion: Command line user? Try Alpine. Everyone else? Use Debian, and hope they move away from systemd.
I might revise this opinion if things break a lot during regular updates (hello Fedora), time will tell. #AlpineLinux #Linux
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Checking the #CopyFail #CVE_2026_31431 status on #AlpineLinux, again nothing heard officially from @alpinelinux but I did see this:
https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/issues/4#issuecomment-4354558846
Maybe the issue has been quietly dealt with or was never an issue to begin with? It'd be nice to know for certain.
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Checking the #CopyFail #CVE_2026_31431 status on #AlpineLinux, again nothing heard officially from @alpinelinux but I did see this:
https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/issues/4#issuecomment-4354558846
Maybe the issue has been quietly dealt with or was never an issue to begin with? It'd be nice to know for certain.
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Checking the #CopyFail #CVE_2026_31431 status on #AlpineLinux, again nothing heard officially from @alpinelinux but I did see this:
https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/issues/4#issuecomment-4354558846
Maybe the issue has been quietly dealt with or was never an issue to begin with? It'd be nice to know for certain.
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Checking the #CopyFail #CVE_2026_31431 status on #AlpineLinux, again nothing heard officially from @alpinelinux but I did see this:
https://github.com/theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431/issues/4#issuecomment-4354558846
Maybe the issue has been quietly dealt with or was never an issue to begin with? It'd be nice to know for certain.
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@chuso Probably worth mentioning the related bug on #Gentoo Bugzilla.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-31431
Looks like @thesamesam is well and truly onto it.
Also for #Debian users, at the moment they're working on fixes: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431
Edit: Nothing seen on the #AlpineLinux front, I guess we'll hear from @alpinelinux in due course.
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@chuso Probably worth mentioning the related bug on #Gentoo Bugzilla.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-31431
Looks like @thesamesam is well and truly onto it.
Also for #Debian users, at the moment they're working on fixes: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431
Edit: Nothing seen on the #AlpineLinux front, I guess we'll hear from @alpinelinux in due course.
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@chuso Probably worth mentioning the related bug on #Gentoo Bugzilla.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-31431
Looks like @thesamesam is well and truly onto it.
Also for #Debian users, at the moment they're working on fixes: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431
Edit: Nothing seen on the #AlpineLinux front, I guess we'll hear from @alpinelinux in due course.
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@chuso Probably worth mentioning the related bug on #Gentoo Bugzilla.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-31431
Looks like @thesamesam is well and truly onto it.
Also for #Debian users, at the moment they're working on fixes: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431
Edit: Nothing seen on the #AlpineLinux front, I guess we'll hear from @alpinelinux in due course.
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ifstate 2.2.6 - a tool for declarative network configuration for Linux - was released:
https://codeberg.org/routerkit/ifstate/releases/tag/2.2.6This is a bug-fix only release:
- fix MTU configuration for newly created tun links
- fix exception if wireguard sockets cannot be opened (i.e. due to missing kernel modules)The new release is already available in #AlpineLinux and in the RouterKit Debian package repository.
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Question for the #linux peeps around here: how hard would it be for someone to get a distro running with a presentable desktop running #wayfire?
Raspberry Pi had a x86 version, but that was back on the Debian 11 era...
It would be nice to have something like #alpinelinux with Wayfire on top, should make for a fairly small and lightweight option for older/simpler machines, no?
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Question for the #linux peeps around here: how hard would it be for someone to get a distro running with a presentable desktop running #wayfire?
Raspberry Pi had a x86 version, but that was back on the Debian 11 era...
It would be nice to have something like #alpinelinux with Wayfire on top, should make for a fairly small and lightweight option for older/simpler machines, no?
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Question for the #linux peeps around here: how hard would it be for someone to get a distro running with a presentable desktop running #wayfire?
Raspberry Pi had a x86 version, but that was back on the Debian 11 era...
It would be nice to have something like #alpinelinux with Wayfire on top, should make for a fairly small and lightweight option for older/simpler machines, no?
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Question for the #linux peeps around here: how hard would it be for someone to get a distro running with a presentable desktop running #wayfire?
Raspberry Pi had a x86 version, but that was back on the Debian 11 era...
It would be nice to have something like #alpinelinux with Wayfire on top, should make for a fairly small and lightweight option for older/simpler machines, no?
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Question for the #linux peeps around here: how hard would it be for someone to get a distro running with a presentable desktop running #wayfire?
Raspberry Pi had a x86 version, but that was back on the Debian 11 era...
It would be nice to have something like #alpinelinux with Wayfire on top, should make for a fairly small and lightweight option for older/simpler machines, no?
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Security-Oriented Alpine Linux 3.14 Released with KDE Plasma 5.22, QEMU 6.0, and More
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As said before musl-based AlpineLinux really rocks. Of course running all required stuff, like a full KDE session, a firewall and podman (for distrobox), flatpak for all 'bigger' applications and still clocking in at 903Mb. For me that shows how lean everything has been put together. Cool.
#alpinelinux #archlabs -
As said before musl-based AlpineLinux really rocks. Of course running all required stuff, like a full KDE session, a firewall and podman (for distrobox), flatpak for all 'bigger' applications and still clocking in at 903Mb. For me that shows how lean everything has been put together. Cool.
#alpinelinux #archlabs -
As said before musl-based AlpineLinux really rocks. Of course running all required stuff, like a full KDE session, a firewall and podman (for distrobox), flatpak for all 'bigger' applications and still clocking in at 903Mb. For me that shows how lean everything has been put together. Cool.
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You have that gnarly application that only comes in rpm, deb and AppImage. Then you suddenly remember Distrobox. And AlpineLinux is made for these setups. Tests finished, I'll finally be able to run KDE with all my required apps on Alpine! #alpinelinux #archlabs
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You have that gnarly application that only comes in rpm, deb and AppImage. Then you suddenly remember Distrobox. And AlpineLinux is made for these setups. Tests finished, I'll finally be able to run KDE with all my required apps on Alpine! #alpinelinux #archlabs
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Also currently in process of bulding and packaging guitarix to later add it to the aports testing (alpine) but the thing is that even though my APKBUILD is fine the guitarix latest github release is somewhat broken - it throws g++ error and quits, while git branch of it works just fine...
#alpinelinux #packaging #guitarix #linux #foss -
Al final he decidido que siempre que pueda instalaré las virtualizaciones de proxmox en @alpinelinux
En la medida de lo posible uso @Podman_io pero no siempre es posible. Esta guía para @docker sin privilegios de root. https://virtualzone.de/posts/alpine-docker-rootless/ #selfthosting #docker #podman #alpinelinux -
Got Alpine BusyBox/Linux working. It's very fast on my poor hardware. Sway and Waybar are using almost completely default settings.
#Chrultrabook #AlpineLinux #BusyBox #Linux #Sway #Chromebook #screenshot
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If you're using #ffupdater on Google's #Android #Linux you may have noticed that #Firefox seems to be updated frequently (every few days). #Fennec and #Iceraven do not appear to be updated anywhere near as often (weeks?). Which way is best for keeping Firefox up to date on #AlpineLinux? :)