14 DAY TRIAL // Alpine Linux 3.0.4, a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and Busybox, has been released and is now available for download.
Alpine Linux is not an operating system for the feint of heart. It relies a lot on the terminal and it doesn't feature a desktop environment by default. The one you can see in the image was installed afterwards. Xfce is the recommended one, although users will be able to install a few others as well.
The big release for Alpine Linux was 3.0 and this latest iteration is only a small maintenance version. It's not something extraordinary, but it brings quite a few fixes and a some updated packages.
"The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.0.4 of its Alpine Linux operating system. This is a bugfix release of the v3.0 musl based branch. This release is based on the 3.14.17 kernel which has some critical security fixes. The alpine-xen image is fixed and should now have a working hvmloader again," explained the devs in the announcement.
According to the changelog, the hvmloader has been fixed, a few missing dependencies for subpkgs have been fixed, and various other modifications and improvements have been added.
The complete changelog can be found on the official website. You can download Alpine Linux 3.0.4 right now from Softpedia.