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Natanael Copa

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Founder of Alpine Linux, Software engineer at Mirantis

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Nura @postmarketos.org · 18/06/2026
Update on the conference, @alpinelinux has joined. Now it is officially: "The postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference"! 📍 Details: postmarketos.org/conference ℹ️ Registration: pretix.postmarketos.org/postmarketo… 🤙 Call for Proposals (deadline extended until […]
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Node.js @nodejs.org · 19/05/2026
Do you use Node.js on Alpine Linux? We are looking for volunteers to help us bring Alpine to "Tier 2" where it would be built and released through the normal CI process. If you can help, let us know: bit.ly/4v03NiW
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Promote Alpine Linux out of experimental to be a tier 2 platform · Issue #62764 · nodejs/node
What is the problem this feature will solve? We currently have a significant number of users of Alpine Linux (Linux using musl as its libc implementation). For the direct tarballs from the unoffici...
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Ariadne Conill 🐰 @ariadne.space · 06/04/2026
alpine has surpassed 100,000 pull requests on gitlab: gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aport...
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Reminds me of a Russian roulette Easter egg that I once worked on in apk-tools. It would count down and then random 1/6 it would literally do apk del ‘*’. I had a safety switch that should ask for a confirmation «are you sure? Y/N» but there was a bug… and boom! after that I stopped working on it
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I still use eth0 and eth1 in Alpine Linux
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/06/2025
Reading a Big Number xkcd.com/3102/
Comic. Thought Process While Reading A Big Number: 54,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000,0000,054,000"000,00c2ef46
[comments progress along the line, approximately every 3 digits] (1) 54! Great! I know that number. Solid start. (2) Oh, a comma and some zeros. Cool. Must be at least 54 thousand. (3) A second comma! I wonder if we’re talking population or money. (4) Yikes! If this is money, it’s a *lot* of money. (5) Why am I reading this? Whatever this number is, I’m not going to be able to visualize it. (6) All right, either someone made a unit conversion error or this is one of those incomprehensible astronomy numbers. (7) [4 zeroes between commas instead of 3]] Oh no. Is this a misplaced comma or an extra zero? I guess we’ll see if the next group has two zeros or three. If it’s two, we can at least hope the digits are right. (8) [4 zeroes between commas] Oh *no*. (9) [repeat of the digits 54] What is happening. (10) [a quotation mark in place of comma] Someone messed up real bad. (11) [final digits are c2ef46, cut off] Someone messed up real bad and I hope it wasn’t me.
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Alpine Linux 3.22.0 is out! alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine... #AlpineLinux
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Alpine 3.22.0 released | Alpine Linux
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Alpine Linux 3.22 rc3 was just tagged. This will hopefully be the last release candidate. 
#AlpineLinux
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I thought I merged it but apparently I didn't. gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aport... Thanks for the reminder
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community/kubernetes: upgrade to 1.33.1 (!84715) · Merge requests · alpine / aports · GitLab
Alpine packages build scripts
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Parts of the Alpine Linux infra (CI) has been unreliable recently. It has remined me of how valuable the parts that works are, and how valuable the Linode/Akamai sponsoring is for Alpine Linux. They have been incredible stable and reliable. Thank you! #Linode #Akamai #AlpineLinux
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Alpine Linux 3.22.0 release candidate 2 is out. Please help us test it and report back. cdn.alpinelinux.org/v3.22/releas... #AlpineLinux
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Index of /v3.22/releases/
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
k0s 1.33.1 was released yesterday. This release works on RISC-V but you have to build it yourself. github.com/k0sproject/k... #kubernetes #RISCV
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Release v1.33.1+k0s.0 · k0sproject/k0s
What's Changed Bump pymdown-extensions from 10.14.1 to 10.14.2 in /docs by @dependabot in #5484 Bump github.com/cilium/ebpf from 0.17.1 to 0.17.2 by @dependabot in #5483 Bump github.com/spf13/pfla...
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Cloud Native Oslo @cloudnativeoslo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Have you tried out a new tool, learned something interesting or have worked on a project that's related to cloud native and open source that a broader community can benefit from? Then we would love to hear from you!🤩 #CloudNativeOslo #CloudNativeAmbassador #DevOps #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering
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Cloud Native Oslo: Call for Speakers
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Ariadne Conill 🐰 @ariadne.space · 18/02/2025
if you are on #alpinelinux edge, you can now `apk add apk-tools3@testing` to install apk3 as system-wide apk (or just `apk add apk-tools3` if you don't mask the testing repo)
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Kurt Lekanger @lekanger.no · 14/02/2025
Jeg slo av en hyggelig prat med Alpine Linux-skaperen Natanael Copa. Nå trenger han hjelp, etter at hostingleverandøren deres legger ned "bare metal"-tjenestene sine. @ncopa.bsky.social
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Alexandre Mutel @xoofx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025
Great, now I can monthly contribute to opencollective.com/alpinelinux 🥳
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Alpine Linux - Open Collective
A security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Alpine Linux joined OpenCollective alpinelinux.org/posts/2025-0...
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Alpine Linux joins Open Collective | Alpine Linux
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025
#musl mallocng just caught an interesting type of buffer overflow in mc: decrement of offset past start of buffer and overwrite of byte below allocated memory with '\0'.
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
One of the fixes introduced a regression.
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Man in Business Suit Levitating @dfeldman.org · 25/12/2024
You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…
Code written with box characters used on old old software to make fake UIs
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 15/12/2024
Xfce 4.20 released www.xfce.org/about/news/?... #unix #linux #opensource
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News – Xfce 4.20 released – Xfce
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 12/12/2024
We've gotten to the point that people get angry at projects that fix potential vulnerabilities, because the security scanner they use reports it as a false positive when not even using the affected package. Yell at your vendor! Or, govulncheck is RIGHT THERE.
One comment with cropped author:

As per the discussion at #20094 - this is NOT a vulnerability in this library. It is just a poorly documented callback API that has a POTENTIAL for misuse by users who do not understand how SSH key exchange works.

Now everyone that uses x/crypto has a nice 9.1 CVE that they have to "patch", even if they're not using x/crypto/ssh, or use the callback properly.

My response:

I invite you to take the opportunity to ask your vendor scanner why they report such obvious false positives, when the public vulnerability database includes package and symbol information. govulncheck is an example of a scanner that won't repost that false positive.
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Alpine Linux 3.20.0 is out alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine...
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Alpine 3.20.0 released | Alpine Linux
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
If you are upgrading your #alpinelinux please pay attention if ifupdown-ng-openrc is uninstalled: (1/53) Purging ifupdown-ng-openrc (0.12.1-r3) If that happens, then please run `apk fix openrc`, or you may not have network next reboot.
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
I just pushed Linux kernel 6.6.6 to #alpinelinux edge and v3.19
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Natanael Copa @ncopa.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
#alpinelinux 3.19.0 is out! - Kernel 6.6 - #raspberrypi 5 - GCC 13.2 - Perl 5.38 - LLVM 17 - Xen 4.18 - PostgreSQL 16 - Node.js (lts) 20.10 - Ceph 18.2 - GNOME 45 - Go 1.21 - KDE Apps 23.08 / Frameworks 5.112 - OpenJDK 21 - PHP 8.3 alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine...
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