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Drew: unrelated question having just read your software distribution post and noticing you use Alpine - have you tried NixOS? What does Alpine have (or lack tha
by eximius 7y ago
Drew: unrelated question having just read your software distribution post and noticing you use Alpine - have you tried NixOS? What does Alpine have (or lack that others have)?
- Mrat 7y agoNot OP, neither an Alpine user, but tried it once. For me, the main selling point of Alpine is that it's not what RMS would call "a GNU/Linux distribution", since it doesn't use the GNU userland. This means, no GNU libc (Musl instead), no GNU Coreutils (Busybox instead), etc. It became kind of famous thanks to Docker because an Alpine image is (or at least, was) only sized at 6MB.