Alpine Linux Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Installing Debian bookworm without systemd

  Anyway, if you're after a distro that doesn't use systemd and is a joy to use and tinker with, take a look at Alpine [0]. It is a lot more compact and faster compared to other distros for using Musl instead of Glibc, which means you may find software that has not been ported yet, however so far I've installed it also on mini PCs and laptops with great results. 0: https://alpinelinux.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• AWS is asleep at the Lambda wheel

  ×You can deploy your own arbitrary base images to Lambda, for example images based on Alpine or Debian Linux. To work with Lambda, these images must implement the Lambda Runtime API. Source: about 1 year ago

• Fix rustup failed with "error: linker `cc` not found" on Alpine Linux 3.17 (Rust 1.66)

  Alpine Linux offers Rustup package as well as Rust. I built the development environment with Docker. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Does it make sense to try to install / maintain a gentoo system in a vm for learning more about Linux?

  Gentoo could provide an easy way to learn about init systems other than systemd. But in practice, coming from Arch, Artix is probably a better choice for most of the alternatives except for OpenRC (Gentoo or Alpine is better for that) and the traditional LSB init.d setup (where Devuan is really the only practical option anymore). I’m specifically mentioning Artix here because it is Arch, just with proper support... Source: over 1 year ago

• How to create small Docker images for Rust

  Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• New Submission

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• Glacier - a simple package manager written in sh

  The name and description reminds me of Alpine Linux. Is your distro by any means related to Alpine? Source: about 2 years ago

• Unicloud, Unison UI Smart File Sync. Automatic client registration. Sync from any replica. Docker, Flask, Python! Check it out :-)

  Small memory usage and image footprint, thanks to Alpine Linux. Source: about 2 years ago

• Top 5 Docker Best Practices

  For example, using alpine often a common practice when it comes to optimizing image sizes. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Mount S3 Objects to Kubernetes Pods

  We've built our own goofys Docker image based on Alpine Linux and a Helm chart that installs the DaemonSet. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Running SSH in an Alpine Docker Container

  When deploying your web application you will likely be using Docker for containerization. Many base Docker images like Node or Python are running Alpine Linux. It is a great Linux distro that is secure and extremely lightweight. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Docker for Javascript Developers

  The default Node image runs on Debian, however one of the most popular versions runs on something called Alpine Linux. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Can I have a minimal OS that loads my program?

  The reason I mentioned containers in the first place was your statement 'I want to remove everything'. In the past the most minimal container images I've seen have used Alpine Linux. Source: over 2 years ago

• Discover Slitaz, a 50MB Lightweight Desktop Operating System

  Alpine might be a better choice for you, its intended use is in VMs and containers, it's actively maintained and supported, and it gets better with each release. https://alpinelinux.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Downloading data from Render.com's persistent Redis service

  This Render article describes how we can get our hands on the data stored on attached disks using magic_wormhole. However, the Redis Docker image runs Alpine Linux; and to install magic_wormhole we need apt which isn't available on this Linux distribution. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Hacking the iPad 2

  You can check iBox emulator, it is a modified fork of bochs, it can to run Windows XP on iPhone 7 (slow af), no one Linux distro will run over bochs, even TinyCore or Alpine Linux (with your hardware). Source: over 2 years ago

• What is the lightest distro of Linux

  Alpineis very light and my choice for when resources are constrained but the default install is pretty barebones, you need to add gui stuff through tuhe package manager and do some set up. Source: over 2 years ago

• Gui based system on a 190MB ram laptop from the 90's

  Alpine Linux on the Edge repo is a nice light base with a decent software selection. Void also runs pretty light. Source: over 2 years ago

• A Linux distro with a focus on simplicity and the concept of less is more

  Sounds like you'd be happy with Alpine Linux too https://alpinelinux.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Linux server selection

  I'm a big fan of Alpine Linux. The install is simple and tiny (unless you want to provide a custom disk layout, that's a bit of a pain), its packages are up to date, and (knock on wood) I haven't yet had an issue upgrading from one release to the next (which is something I did encounter with Ubuntu a long time ago). Source: almost 3 years ago

• Help needed Docker firewall pip installs failing

  You are actually creating a container image with the 'docker build' command. Your 'dockerfile' is actually downloading a container image first at the FROM statement "FROM python:3.9". It is based on Alpine Linux. Source: almost 3 years ago