First: I'm new to Lemmy and only kinda familiar with Alpine so please forgive me (and guide me in the right direction) if this isn't the best place to ask questions.

On to my question, now:

I have Ly installed on a fresh sys install with sway. Everything except Ly and a few basics like nano came straight from setup-alpine so Wayland is running fine and sway runs with the basic command.

My problem is that I'm seeing little to no Alpine guides for it so I'm following Arch/Gentoo with some adjustments for Alpine and everything works except for the part where I have to disable agetty service.

Alpine is preconfigured with the Busybox version with agetty being an optional replacement (not using it so far, can switch if needed). This, of course, means that the normal tty login and Ly are both running simultaneously in a weird way that is documented in the Gentoo/Arch guides.

Tldr; tty and Ly login clashing. Need to disable getty service for tty2 that doesn't seem to exist on Alpine.

I can't figure out how to manage this step on this system. Anyone here successfully run Ly on Alpine that could give me a little insight into this problem? As always, thanks in advance!

Normally I use Mate with Plank but on Alpine I couldn't find Plank. Can anybody else recommend a dock replacement that Alpine does have ? Currently I am using XFCE in the mean time as it comes with a dock but I do miss Mate and prefer it.

I'm a noob Linux user and I recently went full-time Linux. I want to use Alpine Linux for a self hosting project but I couldn't find much material. Can anyone direct me to a tutorial for Alpine setup and setting up a server for nextcloud and OpenVPN? Thanks in advance.

Cross-post: https://lemmy.ml/post/2638054

Alice “psykose” who is easily responsible for the highest number of commits per author over the past year has decided to step down from maintaining her packages.

She hasn’t decided what to do next but likely “catch up on a year of sleep.” She doesn’t believe that this will ultimately impact Alpine Linux itself but hopes that others will pick-up what’s needed to keep on going with the package maintenance.

I'm trying to install Alpine on a 2008 model iMac 8,1. However, the boot selection screen crashes if the Alpine USB is plugged in, which means I can't boot the installer.

It's not a fundamental Linux issue, as I was able to boot and install MX Linux.

I've also had the same problem on a 2010 MacBook. However, I can boot the USB on a 2014 MacBook Pro 11,2.

How can I troubleshoot this boot issue? Is there a trick to make a custom install USB which will boot on an old Mac?