Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting

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Having worked “around the clock” to move from Google Cloud Platform after its open source credits there ran out, and now rushing to move off Equinix, Tissoires suggests a new plan: “[H]ave [freedesktop.org] pay for its own servers, and then have sponsors chip in.”

Alpine Linux, a small, security-minded distribution used in many containers and embedded devices, also needs a new home quickly. As detailed in its blog, Alpine Linux uses about 800TB of bandwidth each month and also needs continuous integration runners (or separate job agents), as well as a development box. Alpine states it is seeking co-location space and bare-metal servers near the Netherlands, though it will consider virtual machines if bare metal is not feasible.

Like X.org/Freedesktop, Alpine is using this moment as a wake-up call. Responding to Ars, Carlo Landmeter, who serves on Alpine’s council, noted that Alpine Linux is a kind of open source project “that became popular without most users knowing it.” Users are starting to donate, and companies are reaching out to help, but it’s still “early days,” Landmeter wrote.

Every so often, those working at the foundations of open source software experience something that highlights the mismatch between a project’s importance and its support and funding. Perhaps some people or some organizations will do the harder work of finding a sustaining future for these projects.

Ars has reached out to Equinix and X/Freedesktop and will update this post with responses.

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