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Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting


Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April

Alpine Linux is now another open-source project having to rush to find new server infrastructure and sponsorships/funding to cover those costs. Key infrastructure of Alpine Linux was graciously hosted by Equinix and now the developers are scrambling to find alternatives. Short of finding colocation space and some capable servers, they'll entertain virtual machines if nothing else is feasible.

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