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Is Python totally DIY? Can't find it in the package search.
I'm familiar with Alpine in container scenarios, but is there any mileage to using it as a day-to-day desktop distro?
Is Python totally DIY? Can't find it in the package search.
apk add python3I'm familiar with Alpine in container scenarios, but is there any mileage to using it as a day-to-day desktop distro?
I'm familiar with Alpine in container scenarios, but is there any mileage to using it as a day-to-day desktop distro?
I use it as a daily driver on my Raspberry Pi. Since the community is small the package repositories are a bit small as well, and I occasionally have to build stuff by hand (painful on the Pi). Add musl to the ARM platform and most binaries in the wild won't run. However, musl and apk means the Alpine is a lot faster than, say, Raspbian or Arch.
I'm familiar with Alpine in container scenarios, but is there any mileage to using it as a day-to-day desktop distro?
I'm familiar with Alpine in container scenarios, but is there any mileage to using it as a day-to-day desktop distro?
IMHO it really shines on dedicated, small VMs or for headless SBC use cases.
There's only 5 daemons running after the installation (provider in brackets, the installer asks which one for ssh and ntp): - init (OpenRC) - ssh (dropbear or OpenSSH) - ntp (chrony or busybox) - crond (busybox) - syslog (busybox)
The diskless mode it offers is ideal for SBC's or other use cases with SD-cards or such.
So it's niche seems to be with very lightweight or hardened servers.
I'm familiar with Alpine in container scenarios, but is there any mileage to using it as a day-to-day desktop distro?
I use it as a bare metal OS on my blog server and it's great in that scenario too. I've personally found the libc stuff makes it really inconvenient to use as a desktop OS, unfortunately. You have to jump through hoops to get something like VSCode to "just work".
I'm familiar with Alpine in container scenarios, but is there any mileage to using it as a day-to-day desktop distro?
I'm familiar with Alpine in container scenarios, but is there any mileage to using it as a day-to-day desktop distro?
I use it on my desktop:) It's a nice experience after a slight learning curve; I'm particularly fond of it supporting ZFS well without being Ubuntu. Musl libc is a potential pain point; I get most software from official repos or build from source, but ex. to run Steam I resorted to flatpak (which just shoves glibc in the container with the application).