Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
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Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
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Re: Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
#2It’s used to build pretty much every Docker image around us. Works extremely well as WSL. Super lightweight, performant, and the number of packages is growing strong.
Pair it with xcfe (or gnome or kde) and you have a super desktop, no more worries about RAM or background processes eating up CPU (looking at you Windows).
Yes, there’s a Blender package! and many other good stuff.
Alpine made Linux fresh again, and yes I have 32GB of RAM and a fast CPU and SSD, using Alpine will make sure it stays fast
It needs much less than that to run, of course, it’s brilliantly focused.
Re: Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
#3I seem to recall some pretty poor performance regressions in Docker containers versus equivalent Debian-based container configs.
Re: Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
#4It’s used to build pretty much every Docker image around us. Works extremely well as WSL. Super lightweight, performant, and the number of packages is growing strong. Pair it with xcfe (or gnome or kde) and you have a super desktop, no more worries about RAM or background processes eating up CPU (looking at you Windows). Yes, there’s a Blender package! and many other good stuff. Alpine made Linux fresh again, and yes…
depends on what you do, it's musl-based, some glibc software might not run well, and if you use linux for daily development work, it might not fit.
Re: Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
#5WARNING: Blatant self promotion follows :)
I've recently switched to using Alpine on my laptop, and have written a bit about setting it up using ansible here:
https://www.brianlane.com/post/alpine-laptop/
And when you can't find the apps you need in the distribution there's always podman:
Re: Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
#6It’s used to build pretty much every Docker image around us. Works extremely well as WSL. Super lightweight, performant, and the number of packages is growing strong. Pair it with xcfe (or gnome or kde) and you have a super desktop, no more worries about RAM or background processes eating up CPU (looking at you Windows). Yes, there’s a Blender package! and many other good stuff. Alpine made Linux fresh again, and yes…
> performant
Isn't musl generally less performant than glibc?
Re: Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
#7WARNING: Blatant self promotion follows :) I've recently switched to using Alpine on my laptop, and have written a bit about setting it up using ansible here: https://www.brianlane.com/post/alpine-laptop/ And when you can't find the apps you need in the distribution there's always podman: https://www.brianlane.com/post/prusa-slicer/
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Re: Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
#8Great for containers, embedded devices, and servers.
Not quite ready for desktop development use yet despite my best efforts.
I use Arch btw.
Re: Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
#9A nice feature of Alpine Linux is that the package repository is a relatively straightforwardly-structured git repository containing build scripts for each package:
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/
It's worth reading the contributor guide[1] before signing up and providing any fixes and improvements - and from there, hopefully it's a relatively familiar workflow for many developers.
[1] - https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux:Contribute
Re: Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro
#10WARNING: Blatant self promotion follows :) I've recently switched to using Alpine on my laptop, and have written a bit about setting it up using ansible here: https://www.brianlane.com/post/alpine-laptop/ And when you can't find the apps you need in the distribution there's always podman: https://www.brianlane.com/post/prusa-slicer/
I ran Alpine on my laptop during the last half of college. It's a great little distro if you don't mind occasionally compiling things.