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Interesting that alpine didn't get mentioned, i thought that was the most common option for a slim Linux running inside containers.
by MichaelMoser123 4y ago
Interesting that alpine didn't get mentioned, i thought that was the most common option for a slim Linux running inside containers.
- dharmab 4y agoAlpine is a general purpose OS; You can run it as a desktop or server OS on real hardware.
- squarefoot 4y ago> You can run it as a desktop or server OS on real hardware. And it literally rocks at that. I would strongly encourage everyone with an old or small pc/laptop/sbc/whatever that is too resource limited to run a "regular" distro, to try Alpine on it. The amount of resources saved thanks to using musl instead of glibc is astounding.
- MichaelMoser123 4y agostill they do have a strong focus on size reduction, like using musl instead of glibc.
- slondr 4y agoAs pmOS folks (and anyone running alpine on their desktop or server) will happily tell you, size reduction is not a goal only relevant to container runtimes.
- MichaelMoser123 4y agotoday i learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS - "an operating system primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS "Alpine Linux was chosen as the base distribution due to its low storage requirements, making it more suitable for older devices. Excluding the kernel, a base installation takes up approximately 6 MB" i guess that would also make a more secure phone, one that is less likely to call it's mother ship. thanks for the tip!
- MichaelMoser123 4y agotoo bad that device support isn't stellar :-( https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
- slondr 4y agoI ran it on my PinePhone for awhile, and it was really nice interacting with the base system, though I eventually moved to Arch.