Anyone tried Alpine Linux?

W.F.Cody · 2013-06-06 03:56:56

Hi

I just ran across Alpine Linux, a busybox/uclibc based distro with openrc as its init system. It looks quite interesting and its wiki makes references to the Arch pacman and ABS (PKGBUILD)s as inspiration for its package manager and build system.

I just wanted to know if people have had any experience with it.

nixpunk · 2013-07-08 01:36:17

Looks interesting, but I haven't used it (yet).

ConnorBehan · 2013-07-19 07:49:51

I just started looking into this too. However, it's a bit worrying that they are freezing udev at the last non-systemd version. They could easily use the newest version and compile only the udev part.

Asmir · 2013-07-19 08:14:15

I'm still waiting for them to switch to musl instead of uClibc. I think they are planing to do so in verson 3.0 for x86, and in version 2.8 for ARM.
Even so, it's a great distribution.

Barthalion · 2013-07-19 20:02:02

Well, maybe I missed something because I'm hardly active in Alpine currently, but ARM support and switch to Musl are planned for 2.7.

Last edited by Barthalion (2013-07-19 20:04:44)

Asmir · 2013-07-19 21:49:59

Right, it's 2.7 for ARM, my bad.

W.F.Cody · 2013-07-21 19:59:46

Thanks for all the extra info! Definitely looking forward to the musl switch!

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#1 2013-06-06 03:56:56

Anyone tried Alpine Linux?

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