nice, I'm looking forward to #zfs 2.3.0 to be released so that we can upgrade to it in #alpinelinux

does anyone know of any #syslinux #zfs patches floating around?

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/10404

@filippo
nice read, and food for thought on things that could be improved in alpine

I wrote up how my NAS is now just a big initramfs based on Alpine Linux.

It's been pretty great. Immutable, declarative, and very very simple. Just some files, a list of packages, and a short script.

Turns out you don't need overlays, or special DSLs. Or a rootfs!

https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/frood/?source=Mastodon

It's been a long while since I've felt I kept GNOME Software's APK plugin at the very end of my TODO-list. It means, right now the plugin works unreliably, and the once fast-and-simple experience in postmarketOS/alpine is not there anymore. If you want to help with it, today it's the day: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/16637

#postmarketOS

Fresh off the press: The builders finished building 3.21 and 3.21-rc1 has been tagged.

Please help testing it and report any issue on https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues

You can find the downloads at https://cdn.alpinelinux.org/v3.21/releases/

We appreciate all the help we received from the community in fixing the tons of build issues we experienced with 3.21. Without that we would still be struggling getting everything built.

#AlpineLinux

sndiortp play RTP streams or send recorded audio over RTP

https://github.com/ratchov/sndiortp

@lcheylus https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=git-graph&repo=&arch=

@lcheylus looks sweet!

@ed1conf @nixCraft ...and my coffee grinder, the best I've ever had, is a hundred years old and that resonates quite well with my ideal of old hardware plus modern software

@solene Very similar to how I used to run Qubes OS for ~10 years, before I accidentally overprovisioned storage and had to spend a few days on trying to restore what data I could. Beware of LVM thing provisioning! If you went with the LVM setup.

The way I'm wired, and how I setup and use systems, I spent too much time managing my qubes, often felt things were too bloated, various design choices I didn't agree with, and never was happy about "upgrading" (reinstalling) between releases. Data loss was what finally had me.

I do wish you the best on your Qubes OS journey! I still think it is great in many ways and I hope it is a better fit for you than it was for me.

@ed1conf @nixCraft here I thought I was a hexyl curious neovim user but apparently ed(1) is my editor of choice, I use alpine btw

@rubenerd perhaps this comment, too, could cheer you up https://lobste.rs/s/ey4d4o/bsd_person_tries_alpine_linux#c_sfehh1

As with the regular GNU coreutils package, uutils-coreutils will replace some of the busybox symlinks and point them to /usr/bin/uutils, if you're curious just to try and see what works and what doesn't. If you run the rolling release, "edge", that is, otherwise you'll have to wait for the 3.21 release.

I also split some things into sub-packages, to avoid conflicts and other issues. If you want to see what, why and how you can have a look here https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/community/uutils/APKBUILD

@rubenerd hi, I recently read your post about trying Alpine Linux, from April this year, and wanted to both say that I enjoyed reading it and that your comment about uutils at the end pushed me in the direction of finally re-packaging uutils-coreutils to be installable as a drop-in replacement for GNU coreutils

alias rustsplain="rustc --explain"

⚠ Restart required for sshd after upgrading to 9.8_p1 on Alpine Linux Edge. Failing to restart will prevent sshd from accepting new connections.

https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2024-07-02-openssh-upgrade-edge.html

#AlpineLinux

OpenSSH sshd on musl-based systems is not vulnerable to RCE via CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion).

This is because we do not use localtime in log timestamps and do not use dynamic allocation (because it could fail under memory pressure) for printf formatting.

While the sshd bug is UB (AS-unsafe syslog call from signal context), very deliberate decisions we made for other good reasons reduced the potential impact to deadlock taking a lock.

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.20.0, the first in the v3.20 stable series.

This is the first stable release that includes Risc-V 64 support thanks to Milk-V.

Upgrades includes among others:

- Rust 1.78
- Python 3.12
- KDE 6

https://www.alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.20.0-released.html

Thanks to all the contributors who worked hard on getting this release out!

#AlpineLinux

#AlpineLinux 3.20 Release Candidate 1 is uploaded!

https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.20/releases/

The 3.20.0 release will hopefully be out next week.

ugh... try to do a web search including "m4" without getting links to sites promoting murder weapons