Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
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Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
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Re: Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
#2This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.
Re: Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
#3Is LinuxKit's core system based on Alpine?
Re: Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
#4This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.
I use it on my cable box with < 64MB RAM! Got a minecraft server up and running on it too!
Re: Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
#5This is great for Docker base images.
Re: Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
#6This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.
It's a bit of a task: [0]
[0] https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Setting_up_disks_manually
Re: Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
#7This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.
I use it on my cable box with < 64MB RAM! Got a minecraft server up and running on it too!
Your cable box?
As in, a Set Top Box?
Re: Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
#8Alpine is a really great Linux distribution and I have been using it since before the switch from uClibc to musl. However, it suffers badly from having very few maintainers and things break very often, especially if used on desktop as they don't have enough resources to properly test everything before pushing updates.
Even though Alpine is security focused distribution, you will often have to wait a long time for updates to software with widely exploited security holes, again because of lack of resources, and they are no longer able to depend on grsecurity so I don't know how everything is going to turn out.
Alpine is great if you want a lightweight, systemd free distribution and don't require a high level of stability, but I wouldn't have the nerve to use it for mission-critical things.
If you need mission-critical stability you either have to use a big Linux distribution like Debian and Red Hat Enterprise that all come with systemd or you can use FreeBSD, that's my conclusion.
Re: Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
#9This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.
It's a bit of a task: [0] [0] https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Setting_up_disks_manually
Thanks for the link!
Re: Alpine – Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use it on my cable box with < 64MB RAM! Got a minecraft server up and running on it too!
Your cable box? As in, a Set Top Box?
Yeah that's the one... my job requires me to port the Linux kernel to various embedded devices and architectures (let's just say I frequent elinux.org a lot) so work often overlaps into my personal hobbies...