Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option

Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release.

Alpine Linux 3.24 was christened today as for advancing this lightweight Linux distribution built around musl libc and Busybox. Alpine Linux 3.24 ships with installer improvements with setup-alpine now able to support the Limine boot loader and also having IPv6 handling support. There is also better handling for headless setups.

Alpine Linux 3.24 brings a number of package updates including LLVM 22, Rust 1.96, OpenZFS 2.4.2, Qt 6.11, Ruby 3.4, Nginx 1.30, and many other updates. On the desktop side is GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, Sway 1.12, and the System76 COSMIC desktop environment is also added to Alpine's community repository. This release also bids farewell to the GTK2 and Qt 5 packages.

Downloads and more details on the Alpine Linux 3.24 update via AlpineLinux.org.