Alpine Linux 3.24 scales new desktop heights with COSMIC
Version 3.24.1 followed just four days later to fix some OpenSSL security issues.The 3.24 series contains new versions of GRUB, LLVM, Rust, Go, Qt, and NGINX. Alpine isn't an entirely GNU-free Linux distro, but it doesn't use many components from the GNU Project: it's systemd-free and doesn't use the GNU standard C library, replacing it with musl libc. Even so, version 3.24 offers the latest GNOME 50 desktop, as well as version 6.6.5 of KDE Plasma.
- ▪Version 3.24.1 followed just four days later to fix some OpenSSL security issues.The 3.24 series contains new versions of GRUB, LLVM, Rust, Go, Qt, and NGINX.
- ▪Alpine isn't an entirely GNU-free Linux distro, but it doesn't use many components from the GNU Project: it's systemd-free and doesn't use the GNU standard C library, replacing it with musl libc.
- ▪Even so, version 3.24 offers the latest GNOME 50 desktop, as well as version 6.6.5 of KDE Plasma.
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