User contributions for John3-16

6 December 2025

• 05:2105:21, 6 December 2025 diff hist +49‎ m Open-vm-tools ‎ Added Categories: Virtualization, Server current
• 05:1705:17, 6 December 2025 diff hist +61‎ m Upgrading Qt ‎ Added Categories: Development, System Administration current
• 05:0905:09, 6 December 2025 diff hist +32‎ m LXQt ‎ →‎See also: Added Upgrading Qt current
• 05:0405:04, 6 December 2025 diff hist +54‎ m Pantalaimon ‎ Added Categories: Instant Messaging (please amend if inappropriate, Alpine_Linux:IRC is another new member of this tentative new category), Security
• 04:5604:56, 6 December 2025 diff hist 0‎ m Qemu-simple ‎ Amended syntax for Category current
• 04:5504:55, 6 December 2025 diff hist +29‎ m Qemu-simple ‎ Added Category: Virtualization
• 04:5104:51, 6 December 2025 diff hist +43‎ m Vosk ‎ Added Categories: Server, Software current
• 04:4504:45, 6 December 2025 diff hist +43‎ m Kopano ‎ Added Categories: Server, Software current
• 04:4104:41, 6 December 2025 diff hist +21‎ m How to build the Alpine Linux kernel ‎ Added Category: Kernel
• 04:3704:37, 6 December 2025 diff hist +48‎ m Emacs ‎ Added Categories: Software, Development current
• 04:2404:24, 6 December 2025 diff hist +21‎ m Moodle ‎ Added Category: Server current
• 04:2004:20, 6 December 2025 diff hist +29‎ m K8s with cloud-init ‎ Added Category: Virtualization current
• 04:1704:17, 6 December 2025 diff hist +26‎ m K8s ‎ 1. Added 'See also': K3s current
• 04:1504:15, 6 December 2025 diff hist +55‎ m K3s ‎ 1. Added 'See also': K8s; 2. Added Category: Virtualization current
• 04:0404:04, 6 December 2025 diff hist +31‎ m Alpine Linux:IRC ‎ Added its leading Category: Instant Messaging, as wikipage discusses IRC generally and IRC clients secondarily; it would be new category that is bound to be saturated with clients (gajim, weechat, etc)
• 03:5403:54, 6 December 2025 diff hist 0‎ m Alpine Linux:IRC ‎ Amended syntax for Category
• 03:5003:50, 6 December 2025 diff hist 0‎ m Jitsi Meet ‎ Amended syntax for Category
• 03:4803:48, 6 December 2025 diff hist +56‎ m Alpine kernel module support ‎ Added Categories: System Administration, Kernel current
• 03:3403:34, 6 December 2025 diff hist +26‎ m Alpine Linux:IRC ‎ Added Category: IRC Clients - see Discussion
• 03:3003:30, 6 December 2025 diff hist +250‎ m Alpine Linux talk:IRC ‎ Needed categorization; 'IRC Clients' would be applicable and popular?
• 03:2103:21, 6 December 2025 diff hist +149‎ m Jitsi Meet ‎ Added version & WIF pills; v3.23 pill currently outstanding
• 03:0903:09, 6 December 2025 diff hist +37‎ m Jitsi Meet ‎ Amended flag from Obsolete to Expand, listing Alpine Linux versions
• 02:5502:55, 6 December 2025 diff hist +188‎ N Talk:Jitsi Meet ‎ Needed categorization; 'Web Conferencing' would be applicable and popular? current
• 02:4402:44, 6 December 2025 diff hist +31‎ m Jitsi Meet ‎ Added Category: Web Conferencing
• 02:0302:03, 6 December 2025 diff hist +90‎ m About-virtualization-simple ‎ Added Category: Virtualization
• 01:5801:58, 6 December 2025 diff hist +79‎ m Alpine Linux:Trivia ‎ Added category: Development current
• 01:3801:38, 6 December 2025 diff hist +613‎ Using an answerfile with setup-alpine ‎ Amended introduction regarding a fully non-interactive setup, discouraged for general use. current

5 December 2025

• 23:4623:46, 5 December 2025 diff hist +839‎ Alpine configuration management scripts ‎ →‎setup-alpine: 1. Added "-e Empty root password" option; 2. Described "-q quick mode"; 3. Elaborated descriptions and amended style for various other options current

4 December 2025

• 06:1706:17, 4 December 2025 diff hist +713‎ Wayland ‎ 1. →‎XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: XDG specifications link added; also a Note that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR may be found as "/tmp/$(id -u)-runtime-dir" or similar, but "/run/user/$(id -u)" keeps more in line with other facilities, as described. 2. →‎Creating and exporting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR manually: - modified XDG_RUNTIME_DIR path accordingly. See discussion.
• 06:0106:01, 4 December 2025 diff hist +2,096‎ N Talk:Wayland ‎ XDG_RUNTIME_DIR path - optimal choices/standardization across packages - for use in Creating and exporting XDG_RUNTIME_DIR manually section current

30 November 2025

• 03:1003:10, 30 November 2025 diff hist +1,691‎ Alpine Package Keeper ‎ →‎Package pinning: 'Masking a specific package' subsection added. Term used in usr-merge nag.

29 November 2025

• 18:1418:14, 29 November 2025 diff hist −729‎ Using an answerfile with setup-alpine ‎ **"fully-non-interactive setup-disk"** reduced, amended and moved to →‎#Environment_variables_and_setup-alpine: , using ERASE_DISKS as a command-line environment variable instead, elaborated in Alpine_configuration_management_scripts#Environment_Variables.
• 18:0318:03, 29 November 2025 diff hist +1,113‎ Alpine configuration management scripts ‎ "fully-non-interactive setup-disk" moved →‎#Environment Variables: from Using_an_answerfile_with_setup-alpine#Answerfile_Variables with relevant adjustments

28 November 2025

• 19:3119:31, 28 November 2025 diff hist +1,149‎ Talk:Raspberry Pi ‎ →‎Useful ERASE_DISKS variable: Thanks to Spubby for useful lead on non-interactive setup-disk part of answerfile
• 18:5518:55, 28 November 2025 diff hist +1,192‎ Using an answerfile with setup-alpine ‎ →‎Answerfile Variables: Added guidance for a fully-non-interactive setup-disk: "export ERASE_DISKS". See https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/alpine-conf/-/issues/10549
• 08:3908:39, 28 November 2025 diff hist +1,514‎ Talk:Include:Upgrading to Edge ‎ →‎usr merge: Agreeing on having the usr-merge section into Edge section; 'Masking packages' section anticipated

27 November 2025

• 19:2619:26, 27 November 2025 diff hist +99‎ m Include:Upgrading to Edge ‎ Updated nag message
• 04:1404:14, 27 November 2025 diff hist +2,643‎ River ‎ 1. Enhanced Beginning to distinguish River from the new river-classic fork; 2. Added suggestions for other packages, including bash/zsh/fish completion; and hints to search: first for river-classic*, etc.; 3. Proposed merging Troubleshooting content into Firefox page; 4. Changed instances of River to river-classic, its new name - may need page title change unless new River version 0.4 is integrated here, if made available; 5. Style amendments
• 01:1901:19, 27 November 2025 diff hist +156‎ m Repositories ‎ →‎Community: Added that support for community packages ends six months after their release, giving reference to docs; style amendment

24 November 2025

• 03:2103:21, 24 November 2025 diff hist +92‎ m Alpine configuration management scripts ‎ →‎setup-apkrepos: 1. Added option "-o Only enable a community repo for every defined repo"; 2. Added sample cli for both adding both community repo and fastest mirror
• 03:1403:14, 24 November 2025 diff hist +74‎ Alpine configuration management scripts ‎ →‎setup-apkrepos: added option Only enable a community repo for every defined repo"

21 November 2025

• 18:4418:44, 21 November 2025 diff hist +489‎ Talk:KDE ‎ →‎Should this page be renamed to Plasma: - Concur.
• 18:2918:29, 21 November 2025 diff hist +481‎ m Udhcpc ‎ 1. →‎Configuration: - Added observation that 'udhcpc.conf' would not be overwritten, if amended, whenever its source package busybox is subsequently updated, but a new file created: 'udhcpc.conf.apk-new'; 2. →‎Configuration: Moved the advanced 'default.script' help after the introductory 'key:value pairs' help; 3. Style and grammar amendments. current

17 November 2025

• 03:0003:00, 17 November 2025 diff hist +335‎ m Talk:Bootstrapping Alpine on PC Engines ALIX.3 ‎ Appreciated disposition to contribute by Trone current

15 November 2025

• 05:2005:20, 15 November 2025 diff hist −20‎ Include:Upgrading to Edge ‎ Undo revision 31419 by John3-16 - Undid this revision also, which added "As indicated above", since usr_merge_nag.sh does not currently indicate that the /usr-merge will be implemented in the future, so it is not "indicated [above/there]: the merge request pipeline that would have enacted the revision was skipped (see previous change). Tag: Undo
• 05:0905:09, 15 November 2025 diff hist −404‎ Include:Upgrading to Edge ‎ Undo revision 31418 by John3-16 - Undid my revision, as the merge request pipeline that updated the text in the usr_merge_nag.sh script (https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/91806/diffs) was skipped: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/91806/pipelines?commit_id=0db52277bea433ba4241117d4860cc7ca14e532f Tag: Undo
• 04:3704:37, 15 November 2025 diff hist +512‎ m Desktop environments and Window managers ‎ 1. Alpine Linux as a general daily desktop use case in Beginning; 2. Changed Cosmic to upstream style, COSMIC; 3. Amalgamated tiling and dynamic using slash(/) for some distinction (i3, herbstluftwm, ratpoison arguably not dynamic); 4. Style and grammar amendments.
• 03:4503:45, 15 November 2025 diff hist −2‎ m Installation ‎ Attempted to use 'Desktop How To' as wiki link name instead of 'Guide to daily drive [sic]' - descriptive, and that Desktop 'How to' link is indeed useful; please review if not suitable. Considered adding Daily driver guide link, but respected useful notice to wiki editors regarding limiting possibly duplicate material.

14 November 2025

• 05:2605:26, 14 November 2025 diff hist +1,467‎ m AppImage ‎ 1. Added internal links to 'Running glibc programs' and to 'fuse' package; 2. Added paragraph re storage location; root being discouraged; $PATH; and .desktop; 3. Moved chmod to 'Installation'; 4. Removed 'Example' subheading to demonstrate two usage models depending on paths; 5. Added Category: Software; 6. Style and grammar amendments, using Cmd template, and 'var' for variables. current

13 November 2025

• 21:1121:11, 13 November 2025 diff hist +97‎ m Tutorials and Howtos ‎ 1. Added Sway customization guide to 'Tutorials'; 2. Reordered Tutorials list to conglomerate Sway tutorials; 3. Style amendment.