Alpine Linux 3.11 Introduces KDE/GNOME Desktop Support, Raspberry Pi 4 Compatibility

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Alpine Linux 3.11 Introduces KDE/GNOME Desktop Support, Raspberry Pi 4 Compatibility

Alpine Linux is a distribution that prides itself on being "small, simple and secure" with being a lightweight distribution built off Musl libc and Busybox and popular for use within containers. But with today's Alpine Linux 3.11 release they are seemingly pursuing desktop Linux support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Alpine-Linux-3.11-Released

[EarthMind]

You're not linking properly from the article to this topic.

Ontopic:

I'm surprised they already support kernel 5.4 while not being a rolling release didtro. It's incorrect however that they label it as an lts kernel.

Aside from that, I'm surprised that they focus on desktop environments while their main use is within containers. Anyone got experience using it as a DE?

[aht0]

You're not linking properly from the article to this topic.

Ontopic:

I'm surprised they already support kernel 5.4 while not being a rolling release didtro. It's incorrect however that they label it as an lts kernel.

Aside from that, I'm surprised that they focus on desktop environments while their main use is within containers. Anyone got experience using it as a DE?

Ages a go, I tried to install Alpine on a PC with Nvidia's GPU. Had issues. I think I had XFCE installed for DE but never got around graphics card problem because they used musl, not glibc. It worked fine as a general (home) server tho (used to run it awhile on Kabini AM1 box)

[santiago]

I'm surprised they already support kernel 5.4 while not being a rolling release didtro. It's incorrect however that they label it as an lts kernel.

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

5.4	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin	2019-11-24	Dec, 2021
4.19	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin	2018-10-22	Dec, 2020

As a non rolling release distro they are perfectly selected the latest LTS kernel available at the moment of the release.

[Tuxie]

Insert "for Workgroups" joke here.

[C63uwhnvX3kvBj2s4]

can I install la desktop environment atop Alpine? Will it be usable as an OS? Or this is just for containers? Thx

[Templar82]

"small, simple and secure" is just how I like my desktop.

[starshipeleven]

Aside from that, I'm surprised that they focus on desktop environments while their main use is within containers.

Alpine was not born for containers, but their goals overlap.

[dreich]

You're not linking properly from the article to this topic.

Ontopic:

I'm surprised they already support kernel 5.4 while not being a rolling release didtro. It's incorrect however that they label it as an lts kernel.

Aside from that, I'm surprised that they focus on desktop environments while their main use is within containers. Anyone got experience using it as a DE?

I use it on my laptop with a window manager.

[k1e0x]

It's also GNU free Linux. (sort of)