ALPINE LINUX XFCE CUSTOM IMAGE FOR RASPBERRY PI by ConzZah

This custom image provides Alpine Linux for Raspberry Pi (4 + 5) with fully configured xfce desktop

VERSION: Alpine aarch64 v3.21.3 // v0.0.3

what you get:

• a fully configured xfce desktop environment, out of the box.
• basic system utils, ufw with defaults, network-manager, firefox, vlc, ffmpeg, fastfetch, pipewire, python etc.
• automatic resizing of your sdcard and generation of ssh keys on firstboot
• bash as main shell
• DOOM

NOTES

please be aware that:

• this is in BETA
• i do this because i have fun with it, i ain't getting paid bro. if something breaks, let me know, and i'll see if i find time.

firstboot:

on first booting the system, it automatically generates new ssh keys and also reboots twice to finish resizing your sd-card.

don't be alarmed, this is expected.

COMPATIBILITY:

- RASPBERRY PI 4 / 400

- RASPBERRY PI 5 / 500

SYSTEM SIZE:

• img.xz: 354mb
• actual system: 1.4gb

DEFAULT KEYMAP & TIMEZONE: German

DEFAULT SYSTEM LANGUAGE: English

DEFAULT PASSWORD: 123

( ^ PLS CHANGE AFTER LOGIN ^ )

FLASHING: use gnome-disks or dd

gnome disks:

• get literally any micro sdcard (min: 4gb)
• choose "Restore Disk Image"
• navigate to the image
• flash image to sdcard
• done

dd:

xz -dkc /path/to/img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=512

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If you find a bug, or have a suggestion, don't hesitate to let me know.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WRITING SOFTWARE ON/WITH/FOR ALPINE LINUX !!

Cheers, ConzZah