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 3.16.0

Questa versione contiene (in Inglese):

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.16.0, the first in the v3.16 stable series.

Highlights

• Various improvements in the setup scripts:
  • Better support for NVMe
  • Administrator user creation
  • Possibility to add SSH keys
  • New setup-desktop script for easy install of desktop environment
• Go 1.18
• LLVM 13
• Node.js (current) 18.2
• Ruby 3.1
• Rust 1.60
• GNOME 42
• KDE Plasma 5.24 / KDE Applications 22.04 / Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04
• Python 3.10
• PHP 8.1
• R 4.2
• Xen 4.16
• Podman 4.0

Significant changes

• sudo has been moved to community repository, which means that only latest stable release branch will get security updates in the future. Suggested replacement is doas and doas-sudo-shim.

Upgrade notes

• As always, make sure to use apk upgrade --available when switching between major versions.
• Both shadow-login and util-linux-login provides login-utils with this release. The preferred implementation is from util-linux.
• NetworkManager plugins have moved to subpackages and are no longer installed by default. Users may need install plugins to not lose network connectivity.
• The ICU data has been split into icu-data-en (default) and icu-data-full packages. Users may need to install icu-data-full for non-English locales or legacy charset converters support.

Deprecation notes

• php7 was removed.
• python2 was removed.

Risorse

La distribuzione può essere scaricata da:

• ISO (148MB): https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/releases/x86_64/alpine-standard-3.16.0-x86_64.iso

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

Conclusioni

E’ la prima versione delle serie 3.16