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Slackware was great, but I think Alpine is an improvement in every way. Just speaking as a former loyal Slackware user of 7 years or so.

• LeFantome 2y ago
  Interesting that you see Alpine as the next step after Slackware.
  • kennysoona 2y ago
    I couldn't defend it as such in a general sense, but the reason I always liked Slackware was minimalism. It never had that as an explicit goal, but it was for a long time a distro great for people who wanted minimal systems, without any 'wizards' to get in the way. It kind of lost it's way trying to comepte with things like Ubuntu though. Alpine is so much better from a minimalist point of view (a functional minimal desktop install is only 700mb, while on Void, Devuan and Gentoo it's about double that), and that it has security as a priority at the forefront is icing on the cake.
    • p_ing 2y ago
      I like Slack from a purity of Linux perspective, or at least 'early days of Linux' perspective. Alpine is busybox, so that goes right out :-(
      • kennysoona 2y ago
        Alpine is only busybox until you apk add coreutils