User contributions for John3-16

3 January 2026

• 01:3701:37, 3 January 2026 diff hist +950‎ Nftables ‎ 1. Consolidated packaged rules passages (partly repetitive despite prior useful edits); 2. 'Packaged rules' section made subsection of Configuration, adding subheadings for downloading/enabling and reloading steps; 3. Added 'reload' passage, indicating that nftables is not a daemon so it will not appear under rc-status; 4. →‎See also: Added Tutorials and Howtos - Firewall; 5. Style/grammar amendments.

2 January 2026

• 23:0123:01, 2 January 2026 diff hist 0‎ N Category:Web Conferencing ‎ Created Web Conferencing category. current
• 22:5922:59, 2 January 2026 diff hist +487‎ Jitsi Meet ‎ 1. Updated package availability, including architectures; 2. Style/grammar amendments. current

1 January 2026

• 02:5502:55, 1 January 2026 diff hist +156‎ Nginx as reverse proxy with acme (letsencrypt) ‎ Added →‎See also: Jitsi Meet current
• 02:2302:23, 1 January 2026 diff hist +875‎ Nginx ‎ 1. Added Dynamic Modules and Third-Party Support section; 2. Style/grammar amendments. current
• 00:5900:59, 1 January 2026 diff hist +641‎ MariaDB ‎ Section added: →‎TLS/SSL Configuration: re workaround currently required with new TLS validation behaviour current

31 December 2025

• 05:3805:38, 31 December 2025 diff hist +449‎ Eudev ‎ →‎Installation: udev rules are now being bundled separately. current
• 05:1405:14, 31 December 2025 diff hist +291‎ Nftables ‎ →‎Packaged rules: Added instructions for new nftables-rulesets package

30 December 2025

• 19:2219:22, 30 December 2025 diff hist +791‎ Talk:Custom Kernel ‎ →‎Page ready for regular release?
• 07:0507:05, 30 December 2025 diff hist +901‎ Wayland ‎ 1. Elaborated on XWayland: security risks, testing performance without it, removing XWayland; 2. Style/grammar amendments.
• 05:4805:48, 30 December 2025 diff hist +54‎ How to build the Alpine Linux kernel ‎ →‎See also: 1. Added: Kernel Live Patching (KLP); 2. Style amendment
• 05:4305:43, 30 December 2025 diff hist +68‎ Custom Kernel ‎ →‎See Also: added: Kernels, Kernel Live Patching (KLP)
• 05:3605:36, 30 December 2025 diff hist +123‎ Kernels ‎ 1. Added See also: Kernel Live Patching (KLP); 2. Style/grammar amendments.

29 December 2025

• 18:5618:56, 29 December 2025 diff hist +682‎ Wi-Fi ‎ →‎Prerequisites: Intel - minimal installation firmware requirements further to Alpine 3.23 firmware update
• 02:1102:11, 29 December 2025 diff hist +1,166‎ Wayland ‎ Added stubs for XWayland and Wayback.
• 01:1001:10, 29 December 2025 diff hist +2,174‎ Wayback ‎ 1. Pre-requisites and xinitrc/xinit passages elaborated on, including related subheadings; 2. Style/grammar amended. current

28 December 2025

• 16:3316:33, 28 December 2025 diff hist +343‎ Software management ‎ 1. →‎Bubblewrap + Chroot: Enhanced cli illustration for Electron packages; 2. Style/grammar amendments
• 16:2616:26, 28 December 2025 diff hist +35‎ Alpine Linux:Glossary ‎ 1. Added Category: Wiki; 2. Style/grammar amendments.
• 02:4802:48, 28 December 2025 diff hist +36‎ m Kernels ‎ Style/grammar amendments
• 02:2602:26, 28 December 2025 diff hist +75‎ Pantalaimon ‎ Added the requirement to tag the packages with @testing current
• 02:2102:21, 28 December 2025 diff hist +356‎ Pantalaimon ‎ 1. Pantalaimon indicated to be in testing; need to tag the repo; 2. Style/grammar amendments.

27 December 2025

• 08:0008:00, 27 December 2025 diff hist +14‎ KDE ‎ →‎KDE Applications: Updated status of kde-applications* packages for ppc64le and s390x.
• 07:4807:48, 27 December 2025 diff hist +313‎ Software management ‎ 1.Changed "Flatpak is by far the easiest method for running programs not available" to "Appimages are by far the easiest method [...]":AppImage has since been made available and does not require repo setup/configuration; 2.Similarly, changed "AppImage is another alternative to Flatpak" to "Flatpak is another alternative [...]"; 3.Inverted order of those sections; 4.Replaced root prompts with '$ doas' where possible; 5.Clarified re bwrap: glibc & glib are shell aliases; 6.Style/grammar amendments
• 05:2105:21, 27 December 2025 diff hist +9,297‎ N Wayback ‎ Initial writeup after launch of wayback 0.3; contributions encouraged.

26 December 2025

• 16:4616:46, 26 December 2025 diff hist +145‎ Draft Release Notes for Alpine 3.24.0 ‎ →‎Note-worthy updates: Added COSMIC being made available in community.

25 December 2025

• 16:1316:13, 25 December 2025 diff hist +34‎ COSMIC ‎ COSMIC is currently only available in Edge community, and not in @testing - passages updated. current
• 15:5115:51, 25 December 2025 diff hist +294‎ COSMIC ‎ →‎See also: Added links to COSMIC setup issues page on gitlab and wiki discussion page

23 December 2025

• 07:1007:10, 23 December 2025 diff hist +24‎ N Category:Instant Messaging ‎ 1. Created category; 2. Made a subcategory of 'Networking'. current
• 07:0407:04, 23 December 2025 diff hist +19‎ Category:Articles for deletion ‎ Made a subcategory of 'Wiki'. current
• 07:0207:02, 23 December 2025 diff hist +36‎ Category:Production ‎ 1. Made a subcategory of 'System Administration'; 2. Spelling amendment current
• 06:5506:55, 23 December 2025 diff hist +19‎ Category:Template ‎ Made a subcategory of 'Wiki'. current
• 06:4506:45, 23 December 2025 diff hist +22‎ Category:Embedded Systems ‎ Made a subcategory of 'Hardware'. current
• 06:4306:43, 23 December 2025 diff hist +25‎ Category:Telephony ‎ Made a subcategory of 'Networking'. current
• 06:4206:42, 23 December 2025 diff hist +24‎ Category:Proxy Server ‎ Made a subcategory of 'Networking'. current
• 06:4006:40, 23 December 2025 diff hist +22‎ Category:Filesystems ‎ Made a subcategory of 'Storage'. current
• 06:3806:38, 23 December 2025 diff hist +35‎ Category:Device Manager ‎ Made a subcategory of 'System Administration'. current
• 06:3506:35, 23 December 2025 diff hist +21‎ Category:UEFI ‎ Made a subcategory of 'Booting'. current
• 06:3206:32, 23 December 2025 diff hist +23‎ Category:Gaming ‎ Made a subcategory of 'Software'. current

22 December 2025

• 05:1405:14, 22 December 2025 diff hist −39‎ Samba Roaming Profiles ‎ →‎See also: Removed Helpful links to Samba entry, added in error: linked to Main Page. current
• 05:1105:11, 22 December 2025 diff hist −39‎ Setting up a samba-ad-dc ‎ →‎See also: Removed Helpful links to Samba entry, added in error: linked to Main Page. current
• 05:0705:07, 22 December 2025 diff hist −40‎ Setting up a Samba server ‎ →‎See also: Removed Helpful links to Samba entry, added in error. current
• 04:5904:59, 22 December 2025 diff hist +40‎ Samba Roaming Profiles ‎ 1. Added further categories as per 'Setting up a Samba server' wikipage: Server, Printers; 2. Amended spelling of category: Authentication
• 04:2304:23, 22 December 2025 diff hist +247‎ Migrating from whirlpool hash for LUKS partitions ‎ 1. Added 'See also': Setting up encrypted volumes with LUKS, LVM on LUKS, Full disk encryption secure boot; 2. Added Categories: Security, Storage current

21 December 2025

• 09:1909:19, 21 December 2025 diff hist +73‎ Testing modified install images and packages ‎ Added Categories: Development, Installation, Booting current
• 08:4708:47, 21 December 2025 diff hist +106‎ How to setup a wireless access point ‎ Added 'See also': How to set up Alpine as a wireless router current
• 08:4008:40, 21 December 2025 diff hist +271‎ How to set up Alpine as a wireless router ‎ 1. Amended heading styles; added note to that effect in the "This material needs wiki syntax or style improvements ..." box; 2. Changed 'sudo' to 'doas'; 3. Added 'See also': How to setup a wireless access point; 3. Added Categories: Networking, Raspberry; 4. Style, grammar amendments current
• 07:5607:56, 21 December 2025 diff hist +30‎ Apcupsd ‎ Added See also: Nut-ups current
• 07:4307:43, 21 December 2025 diff hist −18‎ m Alpine Package Keeper ‎ →‎Package masking: Amended syntax, paragraph order, style
• 07:3207:32, 21 December 2025 diff hist +1,697‎ Alpine Package Keeper ‎ 1. Renamed "Masking a specific package" heading as "Package masking" to mirror "Package pinning"; 2. Created "apk Command Line Parsing" heading under "Advanced APK Usage" + subheading "Use of Single Quotes" in order to move and expand the 'exclamation mark' paragraph from "Package masking" there to illustrate other syntax requiring single quotes e.g. package pinning; later parsing concerns could be expanded under →‎apk Command Line Parsing: ; 3. Left two related "Notes" re single quotes.

20 December 2025

• 07:0007:00, 20 December 2025 diff hist +74‎ m Small-Time Email with Exim and Dovecot ‎ Added Categories: Mail, Server, System Administration current