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Zeroshell was a small Linux distribution for servers and embedded devices with the aim to provide network services. It was available in the form of live CD or compact Flash image and it can be configured using a web browser. The main features of Zeroshell include: load balancing and failover of multiple Internet connections, UMTS/HSDPA connections by using 3G modems, RADIUS server for providing secure authentication and automatic management of encryption keys to wireless networks, captive portal to support web login, and many others.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2017-05-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.6.0 |
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Natanael Copa has announced the release of Alpine Linux 3.6.0. Alpine Linux is an independent, minimal operating system that is well suited to running servers, routers and firewalls. Version 3.6.0 introduces support for 64-bit POWER machines, 64-bit IBM z Systems computers and features many up to date packages, including PHP 7.1, LLVM 4.0 and version 6.3 of the GNU Compiler. "Noteworthy changes: the 'llvm' package has been changed to be provided by a versioned 'llvmX' 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." A complete list of changes and credits can be found in the release announcement. Download: alpine-standard-3.6.0-x86_64.iso (106MB, SHA256, signature), alpine-extended-3.6.0-x86_64.iso (329MB, SHA256, signature, pkglist). |
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| About Alpine
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| Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes, containers, and servers. It was designed with security in mind; it has proactive security features like PaX and SSP that prevent security holes in the software to be exploited. The C library used is musl and the base tools are all in BusyBox. Those are normally found in embedded systems and are smaller than the tools found in GNU/Linux systems.
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| 2023-05-09 |
Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.18.0 |
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Alpine Linux is a community-developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes, containers and servers. The project's latest release is Alpine Linux 3.18.0 which offers version 6.1 of the Linux kernel with signed binaries, musl libc 1.2.4 which features TCP fallback for DNS, and Python 3.11. "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.18.0, the first in the v3.18 stable series. Highlights: Linux kernel 6.1 - with signed kernel modules; musl libc 1.2.4 - now with TCP fallback in DNS resolver; Python 3.11; Ruby 3.2; Node.js (current) 20.1; GNOME 44; Go 1.20; KDE Plasma 5.27; Rust 1.69; experimental support for unattended installs via tiny-cloud. Linux kernel modules are now signed; verified modules are not enforced by default, so 3rd party modules with akms still works. All packages for ppc64le, x86, and x86_64 was linked with DT_RELR. This should have reduced size of compiled binaries. Python pre-compiled files (pyc) are now shipped in separate packages. It is now possible to avoid install those and save space by doing apk add !pyc." Additional information is provided through the distribution's release notes. Download: alpine-standard-3.18.0-x86_64.iso (189MB, SHA256, signature), alpine-extended-3.18.0-x86_64.iso (840MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2022-11-22 |
Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.17.0 |
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Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes, containers and servers. The project's latest release is version 3.17.0 which upgrades OpenSSL to the 3.0 series. The release announcement offers details: "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.17.0, the first in the v3.17 stable series. Significant changes: OpenSSL 3.0 is now the default OpenSSL version; OpenSSL 1.1 is available via the openssl1.1-compat package; Rust is now available on all supported architectures. Upgrade notes: as always, make sure to use 'apk upgrade --available' when switching between major versions. Deprecation notes: PHP 8.0 has been deprecated; ISC Kea moved to main repository for long time support while ISC dhcp moved to community repository; Users of dhcpd are encouraged to migrate to Kea. Changes: the full list of changes can be found in the wiki, git log and bug tracker." Download (pkglist): alpine-standard-3.17.0-x86_64.iso (152MB, SHA256, signature), alpine-extended-3.17.0-x86_64.iso (774MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2022-05-24 |
Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.16.0 |
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The Alpine Linux is a lightweight distribution well suited to server and container workloads. The Alpine team have announced the first release of the 3.16 series. "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.16.0, the first in the v3.16 stable series. 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 or doas-sudo-shim." This release also removed PHP 7 and Python 2. Additional details are available in the release announcement. Download (pkglist): alpine-standard-3.16.0-x86_64.iso (148MB, SHA256, signature), alpine-extended-3.16.0-x86_64.iso (718MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2021-11-24 |
Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.15.0 |
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Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers. The project's latest release is Alpine Linux 3.15.0 which provides version 5.15 of the Linux kernel along with updated desktops, development tools, and disk encryption from the system installer. The Alpine team have announced the sudo tool is being migrated to the Community repository and OpenDoas is now the recommended tool to use for privilege escalation. "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.15.0, the first in the v3.15 stable series. Highlights: Linux kernel 5.15 (LTS), llvm 12, nodejs 16.13 (LTS) / nodejs-current 17.0, postgresql 14, openldap 2.6, ruby 3.0, rust 1.56, openjdk 17, kea 2.0, xorg-server 21.1, GNOME 41, KDE Plasma 5.23 / KDE Applications 21.08 / Plasma Mobile Gear 21.10. Support for disk encryption in installer,s support for out-of-tree kernel modules via AKMS (inspired by DKMS), initial support for UEFI Secure Boot on x86_64." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): alpine-standard-3.15.0-x86_64.iso (159MB, SHA256, signature), alpine-extended-3.15.0-x86_64.iso (658MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2021-01-14 |
Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.13.0 |
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Alpine Linux is a community developed, lightweight operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers. The project's latest version, Alpine Linux 3.13.0, introduces official cloud images, the option of running PHP 8.0, and Node.js is compiled for better performance. "New features and noteworthy new packages: Official cloud images. Introduction of ifupdown-ng, a replacement for busybox ifupdown. Improved wifi support in setup scripts. PHP 8.0 is available now (next to PHP 7.4). Node.js (LTS) is compiled with -O2 instead of -Os which noticeably improves performance. It can also use full ICU data if new package icu-data is installed alongside. Initial support for cloud-init. Significant updates: Linux 5.10.7, musl 1.2, Busybox 1.32.1, GCC 10.2.1, Git 2.30.0. Knot DNS 3.0.3, MariaDB 10.5.8, Node.js 14.15.4, Nextcloud 20.0.4, PostgreSQL 13.1, QEMU 5.2.0" Further details are available in the release announcement. Download: alpine-standard-3.13.0-x86_64.iso (133MB, SHA256, signature), pkglist). |
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| 2020-05-29 |
Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.12.0 |
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Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers. The project has published a new version of their lightweight distribution, launching Alpine Linux 3.12.0. The new version introduces initial support for the mips64 architecture and the D programming language. A number of package upgrades have also been provided: "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.12.0, the first in the 3.12 stable series. New features and noteworthy new packages: initial support for mips64 (big endian); initial support for D programming language. Significant updates: Linux kernel 5.4.43, GCC 9.3.0, LLVM 10.0.0, Git 2.24.3, Node.js 12.16.3, Nextcloud 18.0.3, PostgreSQL 12.3, QEMU 5.0.0, Zabbix 5.0.0. Upgrade note - after upgrading to OpenSSH 8.2p1 and higher, the server will not accept new connections until it is restarted. Thanks to everyone sending in patches, bug reports, new and updated aports, and to everyone helping with writing documentation, maintaining the infrastructure, or has contributed in any other way. The full list of changes can be found in the wiki, git log and bug tracker." Further details and upgrade tips can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: alpine-standard-3.12.0-x86_64.iso (124MB, SHA256, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2019-12-19 |
Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.11.0 |
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Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers. The C library used is musl and the base tools are all provided by BusyBox. The project's latest version is Alpine Linux 3.11.0. It features a new kernel and initial support for installing the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktops. Most Python 2 packages have been removed. "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.11.0, the first in the v3.11 stable series. 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, Python 3.8.0, Perl 5.30.1, Postgresql 12.1, 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." Further details can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download (pkglist): alpine-standard-3.11.0-x86_64.iso (121MB, SHA256, signature), alpine-extended-3.11.0-x86_64.iso (457MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2019-06-19 |
Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.10.0 |
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Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers. The C library used is musl and the base tools are all provided by BusyBox. The project's latest release is Alpine Linux 3.10.0 which introduces new hardware support and makes the LightDM display manager available in the distribution's repositories. Some key packages have also been dropped, removing legacy support and unmaintained items. The removed items are Qt4 (replaced by Qt5), TrueCrypt and MongoDB. "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.10.0, the first in the v3.10 stable series. New features and noteworthy new packages: Support for Pine64LTS; iwd, a modern alternative for wpa_supplicant (EAP is not working yet); serial and Ethernet support for ARM boards; ceph, a distributed object store and filesystem; LightDM, a cross-desktop display manager." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): alpine-standard-3.10.0-x86_64.iso (112MB, SHA512, signature), alpine-extended-3.10.0-x86_64.iso (407MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2019-01-30 |
Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.9.0 |
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Alpine Linux is a lightweight distribution which features the BusyBox userland utilities and the musl C library. The project has published a new release, Alpine Linux 3.9.0, which expands hardware architecture support and switches its security library from LibreSSL to OpenSSL. "New features and noteworthy new packages: Support for armv7; Switch from LibreSSL to OpenSSL; Modloop is now being signed; Improved GRUB support; GRUB users should check if their config is generated correctly and have emergency boot media prepared. Significant updates: Linux 4.19; GCC 8.2.0; Busybox 1.29; musl libc 1.1.20; Go 1.11.5; LXC 3.1; PostgreSQL 11.1; Node.js 10.14.2; Crystal 0.27; Zabbix 4.0.3; Nextcloud 15.0.2." The release announcement also mentions that the Firefox browser will only be available on the x86_64 build of Alpine Linux due to its dependency on Rust. Download (pkglist): alpine-standard-3.9.0-x86_64.iso (111MB, SHA256, signature), alpine-extended-3.9.0-x86_64.iso (399MB, SHA256, signature). |
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