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AlpineBSD announced: NetBSD kernel meets Alpine userland

Original: ๐Ÿง AlpineBSD announced โ€“ an AI-free FOSS OS Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland ๐Ÿ“ฐ Source: Tux Mach

A new free and open-source operating system called AlpineBSD has been announced. It combines the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland, and its developers bill it as an AI-free FOSS project, positioning it explicitly against the trend of adding artificial intelligence features to operating systems. The announcement is circulating among Linux and BSD community members, who are weighing the technical merits of mixing a BSD kernel with Alpine's lightweight, musl-based userland tools.

Why now: The open-source community is debating AI-free software alternatives, making an explicitly AI-free OS announcement notable right now.

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