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 3.6.0

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):

New features and noteworthy new packages

• Support for 64-bit little-endian POWER machines (ppc64le)
• Support for 64-bit IBM z Systems (s390x)
• Rust 1.17.0 and Cargo 0.18.0
• GHC 8.0.2
• Julia 0.5.2

Significant updates

• GCC 6.3
• LLVM 4.0
• PHP 7.1
• Go 1.8
• Python 3.6
• LuaJIT 2.1beta3
• nginx 1.12
• Ruby 2.4

Noteworthy changes

• The llvm package has been changed to be provided by a versioned llvm<X> package, which is presently llvm4;
• The -grsec kernel-related packages have been renamed to -hardened;

Development-related changes

• MD5 and SHA-1 hashes have been removed from APKBUILDs, being obsoleted by SHA-512;
• set -e is now implied in APKBUILDs, automatically failing the build upon unhandled failing commands;
• A check() function has been added to APKBUILDs that allows packages to run test suites after build(), ensuring no regressions have occurred. This has been implemented for a number of packages, and policy onward will be to have them either be present or explicitly opted-out of with good reasoning;

Credits

• Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated aports
• Thanks to GIGABYTE, Scaleway, Fastly, IBM, Packet, and vpsFree for providing us with hardware and hosting.

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• ISO (106MB): https://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/releases/x86_64/alpine-standard-3.6.0-x86_64.iso
• ISO extended (329MB): https://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.6/releases/x86_64/alpine-extended-3.6.0-x86_64.iso

Il sito web della distribuzione è: http://alpinelinux.org/

Conclusioni

E’ la prima versione delle serie 3.6