This is bad news for those of us who were not only looking to give old mobile hardware a longer lifespan, but simultaneously obtain privacy and security while doing so.

The arguments provided in the blog post are rather faint and give a vibe of “holding on to last straws”, as other distributions and even BSD’s have managed to run both GNOME and KDE fine, even before pmOS.

For readers unfamiliar with systemd’s drawbacks, these resources can serve as good starting points:

without-systemd.org // nosystemd.org

Out of curiosity: Can you point to a log of the communication with the Alpine team?

I just went to donate, but OpenCollective turned out to be cloudflared and therefore doesn’t let me pass (for originating from Tor).

Though I could steer around this and as much as I would like to financially support the project, I cannot, in good-conscience, support the use and propagation of the worlds biggest MitM attacker.