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Alpine Linux 3.6.0 Released (alpinelinux.org)

An anonymous reader quotes DistroWatch: Natanael Copa has announced the release of Alpine Linux 3.6.0. Alpine Linux is an independent, minimal operating system that is well suited to running servers, routers and firewalls. Version 3.6.0 introduces support for 64-bit POWER machines, 64-bit IBM z Systems computers and features many up to date packages, including PHP 7.1, LLVM 4.0 and version 6.3 of the GNU Compiler.
"Noteworthy new packages" include Rust 1.17.0 and Cargo 0.18.0, as well as Julia 0.5.2, as we ll as "significant updates" like Go 1.8, Python 3.6, and Ruby 2.4. And in addition, "MD5 and SHA-1 hashes have been removed from APKBUILDs, being obsoleted by SHA-512."

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  1. Who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Linux has 2% market share. This is a tiny fraction of the 2%. Why should I care at all about Alpine Linux? How does this affect me or anyone else? Please do tell. Of course, the moderators will censor me as a "troll" rather than answering the question, because they are chickenshits.