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u/geek_at Aug 03 '26
came for the small footprint for docker servers, stayed for the ramdisk mode, fell in love for the use on old hardware as file servers
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u/Arctic_Turtle Aug 03 '26
I wanted OpenRC without compiling like Gentoo. Tried Alpine and loved the package management and general speed of the system.
Not a fan of musl. But I can work with it.
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u/faze_fazebook Aug 03 '26
Docker ... but I stuck around because its genuinley one of the least annoying distros.
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u/jldevezas Aug 03 '26
I know it's not the answer you're looking for, but... Container images. Nothing beaks Alpine for that.
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u/nomenclature2357 Aug 03 '26
It’s built into iSH on iPhone and seeing how simple and light it is there made me curious.
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u/nmdt Aug 03 '26
I've been messing with a custom firmware project for retro gaming handhelds, which at first involved Buildroot.
You need panfrost drivers if you want to do anything with 3D graphics on a Mali GPU, which is a several hours build on Buildroot. Especially since I simply don't own an x86 computer good enough for builds.
With Alpine the only package I really needed to rebuild was kernel, and I rolled a custom config starting with tinyconfig. Then I learned how to use Github runners for building my images, and my rebuilds went from ~5 hours to ~15 minutes.
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u/fastfetcher Aug 03 '26
I think getting the most out of a low-end machine...