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Alpine Linux

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.

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IntermediateFixed Releasefirewallfrom-ramraspberry-piserversecuritytelephony
Technical Specs
BaseIndependent
Package Managerapk
Init SystemBusybox, OpenRC
Latest Version3.24.0
Release ModelFixed Release
Release DateJune 10, 2026
Architecture
ARM64ARMv7i486LoongArch64ppc64elRISC-Vs390xx86_64
Desktop Environments
GNOMEKDE PlasmaLXQtMATESwayXfce

About Alpine Linux

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.