As an important operating system distribution community in the open source software world and cloud computing, AlpineLinux has officially released the latest version 3.21, which fully natively supports Loongson's LoongArch architecture. AlpineLinux is one of the most important infrastructures in the field of cloud computing. It has security and resource-efficient features and is chosen by the vast open source software community and developers as the basic container operating system image.
Most of the software projects managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) choose AlpineLinux as the basic container image.
With the official release of the Alpine Linux dragon architecture version, basic software in the cloud computing field can directly build Dragon architecture container images based on Alpine, which greatly facilitates the construction and release of open source software Dragon architecture images and the development and deployment of applications.
According to Alpine community data, Alpine version 3.21 integrates a total of 7889 software packages, including Linux 6.12, Musl 1.2.5, GCC 14.2, LLVM19, Rust 1.83, Go 1.23, OCaml 5 and other important basic software, and supports the installation of mainstream desktop environments such as KDEPlasma and Mate.
All software package source codes come from the latest versions released by the upstream open source community, and the entire system is built natively on the Dragon Architecture platform.
This indicates that the international open source software community's support for Dragon architecture has been very complete. Based on the latest version of the international open source software community, a complete operating system community release can be built.
The release of the AlpineLinux dragon architecture version has received strong support from community teams such as TSC and a large number of developers at home and abroad.
Loongson Zhongke also actively participates in the work of the AlpineLinux community, donates sufficient servers to the community, and completes processes such as continuous integration and automatic construction.
At present, the construction of the Dragon architecture software and hardware infrastructure of the Alpine community has been completed, and the work will shift to normal evolution and maintenance.