In what is becoming a sadly regular occurrence, two popular free software projects, X.org/Freedesktop.org and Alpine Linux, need to rally some of their millions of ...

Alpine Linux experimenting with an optional systemd compatibility layer marks an interesting moment in Linux evolution. While ...

A well-known secret in the world of open source software is that many projects rely on donated hosting for everything from their websites to testing infrastructure. When the company providing said ...

The Alpine Linux development team has released version 3.22, which replaces Gummiboot with systemd-efistub and introduces a range of other improvements and removals. Alpine Linux 3.22 is out now. If ...

A well-known secret in the world of open source software is that many projects rely on donated hosting for everything from their websites to testing infrastructure. When the company providing said ...

Alpine Linux is a minimal Linux distribution, originally built with Gentoo, but now independent and self-hosting. In some respects Alpine Linux is conceptually similar to NanoBSD, in that technical ...

Alpine Linux Docker images distributed via the official Docker Hub portal for the past three years and a half have been using a blank (NULL) password for the root account, security researchers from ...

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