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<SCRIPT SRC="/js/sheets.js" TYPE="application/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT TYPE="application/javascript">window.onload = window.initializesheets;</SCRIPT>
<H1>linux</H1>
<H3>updated 2022-04-21</H3>
<H3>updated 2022-04-23</H3>
<HR ALIGN="left" SIZE="1" WIDTH="25%" />
<H2>Alpine</H2>
<H3>Resources</H3>
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Some prefer NetworkManager and I believe that's the default on Debian.
The Artix wiki suggests connman.
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<H3>wpa_supplicant</H3>
<P>
<CODE>wpa_supplicant(1)</CODE> is often used by insane people without any helper scripts.
I haven't had good luck with it but Alpine set it up automatically.
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<H2>X</H2>
<H3>Sources</H3>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg">Xorg</A> (Arch Wiki)</LI>
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<P>
X is a graphical windowing system that can be used on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and some proprietary operating systems as well.
X is not the only windowing system; <CODE>twin(1)</CODE> exists for windowed multitasking within a framebuffer and Wayland is another windowing system intended to replace X.
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Some Linux software distributions have included scripts to automatically fetch and install an X server.
Alpine has <CODE>setup-xorg-base</CODE>, which adds the packages <CODE>xorg-server</CODE>, <CODE>xf86-input-libinput</CODE>, <CODE>eudev</CODE>, and <CODE>mesa</CODE>, and then enables the OpenRC services for udev.
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<P>
<CODE>startx(1)</CODE> is provided as part of xinit.
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<P>
Arch has the <CODE><A HREF="https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/xorg/">xorg</A></CODE> and <CODE><A HREF="https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/xorg-apps/">xorg-apps</A></CODE> package groups.
Documentation can be found within <CODE>xorg-docs</CODE>,
drivers within the <CODE><A HREF="https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/xorg-drivers/">xorg-drivers</A></CODE> package group,
the server itself as <CODE>xorg-server</CODE>,
the X event monitor as <CODE>xorg-xev</CODE>,
xinit as <CODE>xorg-xinit</CODE>,
xinput as <CODE>xorg-xinput</CODE>,
XRandR as <CODE>xorg-xrandr</CODE>,
the X resource database manager as <CODE>xorg-xrdb</CODE>,
xset as <CODE>xorg-xset</CODE>,
and xsetroot as <CODE>xorg-xsetroot</CODE>.
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