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It’s used to build pretty much every Docker image around us. Works extremely well as WSL. Super lightweight, performant, and the number of packages is growing s
by lastdong 5y ago
It’s used to build pretty much every Docker image around us. Works extremely well as WSL. Super lightweight, performant, and the number of packages is growing strong.
Pair it with xcfe (or gnome or kde) and you have a super desktop, no more worries about RAM or background processes eating up CPU (looking at you Windows).
Yes, there’s a Blender package! and many other good stuff.
Alpine made Linux fresh again, and yes I have 32GB of RAM and a fast CPU and SSD, using Alpine will make sure it stays fast
It needs much less than that to run, of course, it’s brilliantly focused.
- synergy20 5y agodepends on what you do, it's musl-based, some glibc software might not run well, and if you use linux for daily development work, it might not fit.
- lastdong 5y agoI usually (mostly) use containers for dev, and deployment, which abstracts things a bit
- SahAssar 5y ago> performant Isn't musl generally less performant than glibc?
- imachine1980_ 5y agoI think busybox is lighter, maybe not faster, but make alpine probably the cleanest modern distro, make it efficient and fast in the process.
- SahAssar 5y agoI don't think busybox has anything to do with the question of musl performance.