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Perspective from the other side of the Linux world: I do reinstall my laptops my dd'ing a image with Alpine onto them. Upgrade takes like two minutes. Learning
by blueflow 3y ago
Perspective from the other side of the Linux world: I do reinstall my laptops my dd'ing a image with Alpine onto them. Upgrade takes like two minutes.
Learning to get things done with only the terminal, i3 and a web browser was a big upfront task, but the result is that my setup does not have much requirements, both resources and dependencies. I've been using that setup for 7 years now without suffering from breaking changes. And when wayland is stable enough, i can switch to sway.
- anotherhue 3y agoNow do it on reboot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35390782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35390782
- blueflow 3y agoBooting diskless is the native way of Alpine to boot. System configuration comes as apkovl tarball. I used this kind of setup before but i disliked the boot times. Would be much faster if the final rootfs was packed into the cpio. But if i pack the cpio onto the disk, its not that different from using a regular disk image.