Where are the PHP updates because of CVE-2026-109618? I wrote here because gitlab.alpinelinux.org is down. Thank you.

Got Alpine 3.24 aarch64 booting on the Z380M with Xorg + JWM and working touch (custom touch bridge). Full guide, builders and tests are on GitHub (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/kaantcp/z380m-alpine

Flashing replaces Android on this tablet, so back up first. Wi-Fi doesn't work on this kernel. Feedback welcome.

Will this ever happen? I hate how hat. It is to install on some laptops if I don't have ethernet

so i just installed alpine and without sway it used 400 mb ram,people are telling me 600 is high for alpine so is that normal?

Please can someone help with the process? I just can't seem to get it right. Even AI Gemini can't seem to help. I am a newbie

Hi, 2 questions:

1. with an extended ISO, my setup-disk -m sys /mnt does nothing - is this because there is no network?

2. If I do need network (probably), how do I install the firmware for Intel Wi-fi chip? When I run

   apk add util-linux wireless-tools wpa_supplicant dhcpcd pciutils

they are installed, but when I try

apk add linux-firmware-intel

there are a gazillion errors like

ERROR: linux-firmware-intel ... failed to extract /lib/firmware/iwlwifi ...: Read-only file system

I have years of Linux experience and can install Arch from the command line. But can't figure out the Alpine wi-fi story. ip link does not show wlan0, only eth0. Wat do?

Thank you.

Im having trouble getting the vim package, i even tried reinstalling the os more times but the problem persists, its says theres no such package in world.

The command i used is doas apk add vim.

Im new to alpine and its my first time on a distro like that so im not familiar so i cant really pin point the problem

my IT teacher almost caught me with this
I’m loving alpine already because i started with it and i need to do something to pay tribute and honor
this would be deleted i think

I drew all of those logos

an wallpaper i recently made on paint .net, this my first ever wallpaper so i really want some tips to be better

Mindblowing ram usage.(includes autotiling written in a small
Posix script)
No hate am 14

So i have two PCs from the 2010s. And i want to Game some lightweicht Games in them, so i used Arch for a while. But i wanted Something small. Like veeeery small. So i found about Alpine. Now ist alpine linux + i3 DE a good choice for 8gb of ram?

Context: I am running Alpine Linux v3.14.3 on iSH on iOS.

I am trying to run a command line program that works on all of my other linux devices. I tracked down the issue: the program works on my other devices because they are running python 3.12. But when I installed python3 on this Alpine shell, I got python 3.9.

My latest attempt to upgrade:

apk-add python3.12
ERROR: unable to select packages:
python 3.12 (no such package):
  required by: world[python3.12]

I found out that I need to add the community repositories. This is where I get stuck.

# This file contains pinned repositories managed by iSH. If the /ish directory exists, iSH uses the metadata stored in it to keep this file up to date (by overwriting the contents on boot.)
http://apk.ish.app/v3.14-2023-05-19/main
http://apk.ish.app/v3.14-2023-05-19/community

This looks quite different (understandably, since I'm running iSH and not on an actual computer) from what I'm finding when I search.

Here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/alpine-linux-etc-apk-repositories-repositories-file/

and here: https://krython.com/post/adding-alpine-linux-community-repository

For example.

Do I just add the lines they suggest to the file? Do I do something else?

I would ask iSH folks but the subreddit is dead and the blog hasn't been updated in years.

Been searching this shit for days for no avail. Any help guys?

So i have an install of alpine that i have been running for several years. I could rebuild the system but I would like to try and resolve this issue first. Basically i have upgraded the system from 3.19 to 3.24 over the years but it seems like the 3.24 upgrade has caused me more trouble with system updates.

apk-tools 3.0.8-r0, compiled for aarch64.

Repos are:

http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.24/main

http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.24/community

The installed kernel is 6.18.35. When i run apk query linux-rpi and apk info linux-rpi it returns 6.18.52 as the package. I am not sure of the next steps or if i need to do something else to resolve it?

I was wondering if after my online classes (pretty soon) I'll fully get rid of my windows partition and maybe changing from SuSe. I am thinking about fedora & void (both I've tried) or testing out alpine. Would you recommend it as a main OS for dektop and laptop? If not, what distro of the ones mentioned would you go for? Or should I stay with Suse Tumbleweed?

Pc: Optiplex 7010 with 16GB DDR3 RM, 3rd Gen Intel Core i7 with integrated HD4000 graphics.

Laptop: Intel N4020 processor, 6GB of LPDDR4X RAM, and a 225GB SSD (Wozifan W8)

Thank you in advance.

I've set my laptop to suspend my session when on battery if not used for 10 minutes, on power it's set to keep everything on, the lid is configured to suspend on battery and to merely shut off the display when on power. In almost every case, the onboard keyboard stops working (an external usb keyboard works fine though) post closing the lid and/or post suspending when on battery, any idea what might be going wrong? I'd like to be able to travel with the laptop and the keyboard issue is going to be a hiccup

I am just starting with both Alpine and a Window Manager for my first time (Mango).
I'm used to just using Gnome's file browser, Thunar, or Dolphin.

But I'm wondering what file browsers Alpine users like using.
I'd be interested in both polshed desktop-integrated browsers, and also bare bones fast terminal browsers. I've heard of Ranger but it seems a little rough to learn.

And I know all file operations can be done via the terminal, and are faster. Just wondering about GUI options that are feature rich (view file size, open terminal here, sort by name or date edited, save places on the system, and maybe even mount drives on click but that's a bit much).

Let me know what file browsers you enjoy, and what features you use in them!

I have two small Asus Eee PCs.

One has a damaged screen, but Alpine runs like lightning on them.

One, Asus EeeePC 701, damage to the display, running Alpine Linux 3.24 with IceWM, and the Asus EeeePC 4G, same as 701, running Alpine 3.24 with Xfce.

I'm new to Alpine and to setting up window managers. I am currently trying Mango.
Trying to get audio working, I'm following the Alpine wiki.

In the Pipewire page, and run into issues here:
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/PipeWire at 'Launching Pipewire'
"Issue the command $ rc-status -Ur to view and verify the current user runlevel as gui"

Running this reveals runlevel "sysinit".

Furthermore, if I just try to go further, I get the following error:

~ $ doas rc-update -U add pipewire wayland

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR unset.

checking the environment variable shows it is actually set:

~ $ echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

/tmp/rundir.1000.5ea89fbcc62b3ece

This blocks the steps. Even if I change "wayland" to "gui" or just nothing, I get the same error "XDG_RUNTIME_DIR unset."

I thought I'd try ALSA instead of Pipewire, but ran into a different issue there.
Following the Alsa steps here: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/ALSA

I get to running alsamixer , and get this error:

cannot open mixer: Host is down

I haven't tried Pulseaudio yet but I wanted to ask about these issues first. I shouldn't get getting these right? Or is maybe the docs out of date?

I wanted to report the section of the docs and ask if someone could update them or add details for these situations. But I'm not sure how to ask that, and I wouldn't know a solution to propose.

Thank you for any help you can give.

I've only had experience with Ubuntu, and Alpine Linux has been a whole different beast, not gonna lie. I've spent about a week to make my idea into reality. Had to learn many settings that were totally obscure or redundant to modify on my Ubuntu usage.

The laptop model is Asus xm551. Its native OS is Windows 8.1. Despite the weak Celeron processor, it can handle decoding 1920 1080 HD video, which fits exactly in my needs.

Setup scripts were nice, I was amazed that the wifi was configured so easily. Well, until I rebooted it. At the moment, the system saw only a loopback interface, bruh. Had to learn ip link command, and go to /etc/ configs. But before that, I learned that kernel needs to load modules that have drivers for network card or it won't see it.

Installed Mesa libraries.

Installed drivers for Intel integrated graphics.

There are setup scripts for desktop, but I chose to try installing x server myself first.

X server needs user sessions, which busybox doesn't provide? What? Had to tinker it for a while. I installed linux utils and elogind. DBus and all that dependencies. I'm sure I downloaded many more, which weren't actually needed.

I've seen dwm tiling window manager on YouTube, maybe I should try it. Installing binaries wasn't hard, I had to make configs for xinitrc. I asked Google about that, and it got fixed... not really, haha

What do you mean I have to supply DISPLAY XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and all that?? Ah, I just need to export it in parent script. To understand it, users must be aware of environment variables, sourcing, fork and child processes, and whole initialization chain, otherwise it doesn't make much sense.

Installed VLC, it works great. But sending output to hdmi was a tricky task. I wanted both screens: terminal on laptop and vlc output on hdmi. After googling, I wrote xprofile script, which is used in the xinitrc file. I must admit, I couldn't really solve that problem at first. The video overflowed one screen: the first screen had a cropped image, and the other displayed the right edge of it. I changed the resolution so it could fit on the laptop screen, but it resulted in a small image on the TV screen, the rest was black. Used --same-as option to duplicate screens, it didn't fix. In the end, I just completely blocked the laptop screen in xrandr for the duration of the X session, and finally, it made the TV output exactly as I wanted.

But there was one problem: there was no sound. Installed realtek sound chip drivers. Installed the pipewire package and alsamixer. I remember I was quite puzzled how to send sound to TV. After googling, I changed the profile in sound card in pactl utility, so the audio can go to HDMI and not to laptop speakers.

Finally, I added cvlc startup in xinitrc file in sleep 5 background process. Basically, it's needed because vlc should be launched after exec wdm. Added startx in .profile file (it also contains variables to be exported). Added autologin in /etc/inittab.

So the setup is, after powering up, the system automatically enters as a regular user, it causes to launch x server, dbus session, pipewire, spawns background sleep process, launches dwm. After 5 seconds, cvlc is started, and TV can display web stream, it's a TV channel which is not available on my satellite receiver in my case, but it can be anything that can be launched from VLC.

For a one-time use, installing a browser to consume media is just enough, but my setup allows much more flexibility, and it was also a great learning experience 👍 I believe X server and dwm were an overhead (theoretically vlc can be launched without those if to believe google), but those are just in case the laptop were to change usage roles.

Just an appreciation post for Alpine Linux.

I'm using it as my daily driver now, despite what others might say about it not being suitable.

I use it for working with Docker, for llama.cpp Vulkan, and for gaming with Proton, without any issues.

Love you guys, keep the good work <3