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