Alpine Linux 3.5 Ships With ZFS Root File-System Support, Switches To LibreSSL

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 22 December 2016 at 12:44 PM EST. 11 Comments
OPERATING SYSTEMS
The lightweight Alpine Linux distribution that is built around Musl libc and BusyBox and popular in the container space has issued a big update to their Linux operating system.

Alpine 3.5.0 is shipping today and it has migrated from OpenSSL to LibreSSL, provides initial support for 64-bit ARM (AArch64), supports ZFS as the root file-system, and has better Python 3.x support.

Alpine Linux 3.5 also has updated packages like Samba 4.5.3, GTK+ 3.22.5, glib 2.50.2, xorg-server 1.18.4, and more. There is also now support for R, JRuby, and OCaml with this lightweight Linux distribution.

More details on Alpine 3.5 via AlpineLinux.org.
11 Comments
Related News
AlmaLinux Forms An HPC & AI SIG
Serpent OS Close To Having A System Installer & Being Able To Test On Real Hardware
Rust-Written Redox OS Gets USB Keyboards & Mice Working
Linux Mint Looks To Fork More GNOME Software, Make XApp More Independent
TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform
Rocky Linux To Support Upstream Stable Kernels
About The Author
Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

Popular News This Week
systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative
Linux Mint Looks To Fork More GNOME Software, Make XApp More Independent
Microsoft Updates Cascadia Code: Its Open-Source Font For Developers
Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License
Rust-Based Coreutils 0.0.26 Increases Compatibility With GNU Coreutils
Rust-Written Redox OS Gets USB Keyboards & Mice Working
AMD Enabling "Fast CPPC" For Even Greater Linux Performance & Power Efficiency On Some CPUs
Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes