Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux è un sistema operativo orientato ai routers, firewalls, VPNs, box VoIP e servers, funzionando su hardware x86. E’ stato progettato con la sicurezza in mente: utilizza PaX e SSP per prevenire buchi di sicurezza. Utilizza BusyBox come interfaccia grafica.
Versione 3.11.0
Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):
New features and noteworthy new packages
- Linux 5.4 kernel (linux-lts)
- Support for Raspberry Pi 4 (aarch64 and armv7)
- Initial GNOME and KDE support
- Support for Vulkan
- MinGW-w64 and DXVK support
- Rust is available on all architectures except s390x
Significant updates
- Linux 5.4.5
- GCC 9.2.0
- Busybox 1.31.1
- musl libc 1.1.24
- LLVM 9.0.0
- Go 1.13.4
- Node.js 12.14.0
- Python 3.8.0
- Perl 5.30.1
- Postgresql 12.1
- Ruby 2.6.5
- Rust 1.39.0
- Crystal 0.31.1
- Erlang 22.1
- Zabbix 4.4.3
- Nextcloud 17.0.2
- Git 2.24.1
- Xen 4.13.0
- Qemu 4.2.0
Upgrade notes:
- linux-vanilla has been removed. Install linux-lts when upgrading.
- Python 2 is deprecated. Majority of Python 2 packages was removed and will be completely removed in next release.
- Packages now use /var/mail instead of /var/spool/mail, in accordance with FHS
- clamav-libunrar is no longer a hard dependency of clamav and needs to be manually installed.
Risorse
La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:
- ISO (121MB): http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/releases/x86_64/alpine-standard-3.11.0-x86_64.iso
- ISO extended (457MB): http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.11/releases/x86_64/alpine-extended-3.11.0-x86_64.iso
Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://alpinelinux.org/
Conclusioni
E’ la prima versione delle serie 3.11