--- title: Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds... description: Alpine Linux 3.24 has been released, bringing installer improvements including Limine boot loader support, IPv6 handling, and better headless setup support.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/alpine-linux-3-24-improves-installer-experience-adds-cosmic-desktop-option-dkqxvlwvs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option | daily.dev og:description: Alpine Linux 3.24 has been released, bringing installer improvements including Limine boot loader support, IPv6 handling, and better headless setup support.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/alpine-linux-3-24-improves-installer-experience-adds-cosmic-desktop-option-dkqxvlwvs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/DKqXVlWvS.png og:image:alt: Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Alpine Linux 3.24 has been released, bringing installer improvements including Limine boot loader support, IPv6 handling, and better headless setup support. The release includes major package updates: LLVM 22, Rust 1.96, OpenZFS 2.4.2, Qt 6.11, Ruby 3.4, Nginx 1.30, GNOME 50, and KDE Plasma 6.6. Notably, the System76 COSMIC desktop environment is now available in Alpine's community repository. GTK2 and Qt 5 packages have been dropped in this release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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