Alpine Linux 3.24 Features Fresh Desktops and a Newer Kernel
If you're a fan of Alpine Linux, it's time to upgrade because the latest version has been released with KDE Plasma 6.6, Gnome 50, and Linux kernel 6.18 LTS.
Alpine Linux is best known as a security-focused Linux distribution and as the base of containers that are deployed all over the world. It also holds a bit of a secret … it can also serve as a desktop distribution.
The Alpine Linux developers have released the latest iteration of the distribution with plenty to offer desktop users, such as KDE Plasma 6.6, Gnome 50, and even the Sway tiling Wayland compositor (version 1.12).
In the name of surprises, however, Alpine now includes the Limine bootloader with IPv6 support.
As far as upgraded tools, you'll get GRUB 2.14, LLVM 22, Rust 1.96, Go 1.26, Qt 6.11, py3-setuptools 82.0.0, and NGINX 1.30. The following architectures are also supported: Raspberry Pi, Generic ARM, and Mini Root Filesystem editions for 64-bit (x86_64), AArch64 (ARM64), ARMv7, 32-bit (x86), PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (ppc64le), IBM System Z (s390x), and LoongArch64 architectures.
The official release notes state that "py3-setuptools has been upgraded to 82.0.0, which removed the deprecated pkg_resources module. Projects that still depend on it will no longer work and should migrate to its successors."
Current Alpine users can upgrade to the latest release with the default package manager. If you're new to Alpine Linux, download an ISO image and install from there.
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