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postmarketOS@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems (2026-09-23 21:43:55)
Only two days until the postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference starts! 🤯
We will have live streams + recordings and will take questions from the audience, and Matrix/IRC rooms at the end of talks.
Speaking of which, there are so many amazing talks on the schedule! Here are a few teasers to give you an idea. 🧵
Huge thanks to @ptrc for the artwork!
#linuxmobile #postmarketos #alpinelinux
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postmarketOS@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems (2026-09-23 21:45:48)
Five Lessons from Building Alpine Linux for 20 Years by @ncopa
"Alpine Linux began as a small, diskless distribution for routers and security appliances. It was not designed for containers, cloud computing or smartphones, yet it eventually found its way into all three.
In this talk, Alpine’s founder looks back at five lessons from more than twenty years of building and maintaining the project: how real constraints can produce unexpected opportunities, why simplicity must include the contributor experience, how being different can pay off, why neglected work eventually becomes technical debt, and why a friendly community is part of a project’s technical quality and security.
This is not a complete history or a celebration of everything Alpine got right. It is a candid account of decisions that worked, mistakes that became apparent years later, and what it takes for an open-source project to survive beyond its original purpose."
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postmarketOS@postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems (2026-09-23 21:47:36)
10 years of postmarketOS by @ollieparanoid
"Imagine all the things you could accomplish in ten years if each week you spend a significant amount of your time on them. You could choose a small scope project and drive it to perfection. You could probably make a lot of money, live large, get a big house and five cars. Instead of that yours truly spent his time on his favorite Linux Mobile distribution. This talk gives a look back from how it all started until now, the technical changes postmarketOS went through, how our community got bigger and better and how the mainstream operating systems got worse over time. I'll already spoil the conclusion here, what we have been building together is more meaningful than ever in 2026, I'm proud of what we have accomplished and I'm so happy I didn't do something else instead!"
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