Artur Manuel<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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, <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/grapheneos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grapheneos</span></a> team.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/alpinelinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alpinelinux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/archlinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archlinux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a></p>
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Karl Pettersson<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>david_chisnall</span></a></span> Varying the distance:<br>Problems with <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ubuntu</span></a>? Install <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/alpinelinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alpinelinux</span></a>.<br>Problems with Linux? Install <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a>.</p>
blooon the subject of <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/alpinelinux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alpineLinux</a>: i feel kinda bad not using the ash-shell it comes with and throwing bash on there, cuz i think it's well-thought out.<br><br>mb when i level-up as a linux-wizard, i'll try alpine again with a gui (xfce is a fav from my MX days) as a main driver; i'll even remember use a VM *before* migrating my entire system, lol<br><br>gotta love the simple shit you don't realize is simple until after you've done it the hard way...
bloocaving and moving to alpine-edge. i want them sweet app repos<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/alpinelinux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alpineLinux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/selfserver" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfServer</a>
kcxt (casey)<p>we're up to 4 systemd service subpackages in <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> now \o/</p><p>hopefully that list is gonna keep growing ^^</p><p><a href="https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=*-systemd&branch=edge&repo=&arch=x86_64&origin=&flagged=&maintainer=" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?</span><span class="invisible">name=*-systemd&branch=edge&repo=&arch=x86_64&origin=&flagged=&maintainer=</span></a></p>
Natanael Copa<p>The builders for 3.23 are up and running!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a></p>
Tris<p>On an ARM laptop, what would you likely use?</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a></p>
The Autumnal Owlbear 🦃🍂🏳️🌈<p>Hello everyone. I'm The Owlbear. I've been here for like, a bit, and decided I finally needed to do a proper intro post.</p><p>I'm into many nerdy things, particularly TTRPGS, Video Games, and Science Fiction. A few of my favorite things:</p><p>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Pathfinder2e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pathfinder2e</span></a> and <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Golarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Golarian</span></a> in general.<br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Murderbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Murderbot</span></a><br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Terraria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terraria</span></a> (I suck at it tho)<br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Fallout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fallout</span></a> but not 76 (or any other multiplayer only game for that matter)<br>* A very specific and short list of <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Anime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anime</span></a><br>* The two <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Alien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alien</span></a> movies (Alien and it's sequel, Aliens). I'm so glad they never made more.<br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/TTRPGs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TTRPGs</span></a> that aren't D&D 5e (earlier editions are cool tho)<br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/IndieGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieGames</span></a><br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/GameDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameDesign</span></a><br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> and <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a>, particularly <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Arch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arch</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/VoidLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoidLinux</span></a> <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> and <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Fedora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fedora</span></a><br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/LGBTQIA2S" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA2S</span></a><br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Owls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Owls</span></a><br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Bears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bears</span></a><br>* <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/Owlbears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Owlbears</span></a><br>* The <a href="https://retro.pizza/tags/DCEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DCEU</span></a> - now that James Gunn is in charge</p><p>I like other stuff too.</p><p>I don't like hate, that crap they call AI these days, trolls, and being shitty just to be shitty.</p><p>I believe in love, compassion, empathy, and generally not being a shit person.</p>
Alpine Linux :alpine:<p>Cloud images for these releases are now available as well.</p><p><a href="https://www.alpinelinux.org/cloud/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">alpinelinux.org/cloud/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a></p>
Alpine Linux :alpine:<p>We're happy to announce that Alpine 3.19.9, 3.20.8, 3.21.5 and 3.22.2 are released.</p><p>These updates include security fixes for OpenSSL addressing the September 30, 2025 advisory (CVE-2025-9230, CVE-2025-9231, CVE-2025-9232).</p><p><a href="https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.19.9-3.20.8-3.21.5-3.22.2-released.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3</span><span class="invisible">.19.9-3.20.8-3.21.5-3.22.2-released.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a></p>
9to5Linux<p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> Weekly Roundup for October 5th, 2025: <a href="https://floss.social/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> OS rebased on <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> 13, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/openSUSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openSUSE</span></a> Leap, 16, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> Touch rebased on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Cairo-Dock gets <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wayland</span></a> support, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenSSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSSL</span></a> 3.6, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/NVIDIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NVIDIA</span></a> 580.95.05, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> Linux-libre 6.17 kernel, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> adopting a /usr-merged file system layout, new <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Steam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Steam</span></a> Client update, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Cinnamon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cinnamon</span></a> gets new features, and more <a href="https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-october-5th-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly</span><span class="invisible">-roundup-october-5th-2025</span></a></p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a></p>
Natanael Copa<p>Alpine Linux is moving to a /usr-merged filesystem layout.</p><p><a href="https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-10-01-usr-merge.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-10-</span><span class="invisible">01-usr-merge.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/usrmerge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usrmerge</span></a></p>
arosano 🇩🇰 🇮🇱<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bsd.network/@rubenerd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rubenerd</span></a></span> I had <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> on my X240. Used ctwm ;) Moved it to an X270 though. The X240 now has <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/alpinelinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alpinelinux</span></a> with a <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/kali" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kali</span></a> container for teaching security and ethical hacking. The X240 incidentally has touch screen ;) Both machines are second hand, refurb. At the moment I use cwm on all my machines. There is also a Thinkcentre with OpenBSD.</p>
arosano 🇩🇰 🇮🇱<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>midtsveen</span></a></span> What about <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/alpinelinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alpinelinux</span></a> with <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/kalilinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kalilinux</span></a> in a container :)</p>
Natanael Copa<p>You also need to avoid those broken OpenSSH packages, which were compiled against the broken OpenSSL:</p><p>- 3.22: openssh-10.0_p1-r8<br>- edge: openssh-10.0_p1-r9</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a></p>
Natanael Copa<p>OpenSSL 3.5.3 introduces a regression that makes ssh break on openssl version check.<br><a href="https://github.com/openssl/project/issues/1621" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/openssl/project/iss</span><span class="invisible">ues/1621</span></a></p><p>If you use Alpine Linux:<br>- 3.22: make sure you get >=3.5.3-r1<br>- edge: make sure you get >=3.5.3-r2</p><p>Those include backports of upstream fixes.</p><p>Sorry for the inconvenience.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSSL</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/regression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regression</span></a></p>
EF<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://io.mwl.io/@mwl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mwl</span></a></span> it is quite easy on <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> and very stable.</p>
Wizards Anonymous<p>With <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sway</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WM</span></a> (on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a>), how do you connect to an open <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WiFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WiFi</span></a> ssid?</p>
EF<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ariadne</span></a></span> thank you for the explination and any OS is free to make its choices based on whatever rationale. I support <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> in what the team wants to do. We all make choices based on the information at the time, not all decisions will sort everyone and no criticism was intended. Understand that XLibre is a particularly devisive topic but appreciate your answer also states why X itself is problematic long term.</p>
EF<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ariadne</span></a></span> greater inclusion of actual systemd bits, the X compositor under Wayland in lieu of XLibre. The /usr thing doesn't bother me as long as the transition is painless. The last two or so releases appear to not have been as rigorously tested as previous one but that is subjective. All not helped by some of the wider politics and corporate 'involvement' in the Linux world.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> is a wonderful OS and reliable with a good mix of software available. However, feel the team is struggling to expand and adapt as is becomes and more popular OS (Postmarket adding to the workload but contributing some too). Lots of people clearly doing good work. A loss of pure X and systemd components being added has triggered questions about whether <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> is the right choice for the future. My contributions to the project are small and am not asking the project to change direction as that is wrong, just sharing an opinion for a user of it on multiple archs, using it as a server and desktop on fixed and portable devices. The wider issues in the 'Linux' community are more troubling and likely triggered the itch.</p><p>So, search is on for a new OS which feel could well be a BSD or Unix. </p><p>Hope that helps explain. Feel free to PM me if not or ask specifics here.</p>
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