Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for x86 routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers. It was designed with security in mind; it has proactive security features like PaX and SSP that prevent security holes in the software to be exploited. The C library used is uClibc and the base tools are all in BusyBox. Those are normally found in embedded systems and are smaller than the tools found in GNU/Linux systems.
The Alpine Linux is a lightweight distribution well suited to server and container workloads. The Alpine team have announced the first release of the 3.16 series. "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.16.0, the first in the v3.16 stable series. Various improvements in the setup scripts: Better support for NVMe. Administrator user creation. Possibility to add SSH keys. New setup-desktop script for easy install of desktop environment. Go 1.18, LLVM 13, Node.js (current) 18.2, Ruby 3.1, Rust 1.60, GNOME 42, KDE Plasma 5.24 / KDE Applications 22.04 / Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04, Python 3.10, PHP 8.1, R 4.2, Xen 4.16, Podman 4.0. Significant changes: sudo has been moved to community repository, which means that only latest stable release branch will get security updates in the future. Suggested replacement is doas or doas-sudo-shim.
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Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for x86 routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers. It was designed with security in mind; it has proactive security features like PaX and SSP that prevent security holes in the software to be exploited. The C library used is uClibc and the base tools are all in BusyBox. Those are normally found in embedded systems and are smaller than the tools found in GNU/Linux systems.
