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I'm currently playing with Alpine Linux on slow laptops and netbooks. The base install is super tiny, but can be extended to become a full fledged desktop, albe

• cfiggers 4y ago
  That's really interesting to me. Do you have a blog? I'd be quite interested to read any highlights or takeaways you may have from your tinkering. I spent a weekend playing with Alpine at some point. I really appreciate Alpine's documentation wiki[0] and apk is a delightful package manager. Plus, as you say, the disk footprint stays significantly smaller than an otherwise equivalent setup on Ubuntu (my main point of comparison). But, something I rely on turned out to have compatibility problems with musl (can't recall what right now), so it ended up not being a good fit for me. That said, I like your suggestion of using it specifically on old/slow hardware. Might revisit it at some point. [0] https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Main_Page https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Main_Page