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Re:Alpine Linux 3.9.0 Released by squarefoot on Thursday January 31, 2019 @02:45PM (#19048071)
For what I've seen in the 20 minutes I tried it, it's probably best suited for ridiculously low footprint cli only installs. My favorite low fat distro for desktop on constrained x86 hardware is DietPI, which regardless of the name doesn't run only on xPI boards and is functionally very close to a normal Debian, although much lighter.

This is from a DietPi x86-64 install onto a Virtualbox VM, XFCE desktop plus an open terminal and both Firefox and LibreOffice loaded; Firefox showing mozilla.org webpage and Libreoffice Writer an empty page. Not bad at all! Although I prefer Armbian for embedded boards, DietPi really screams on small netbooks.

  dietpi@DietPi:~$ free
                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
  Mem:        2052524      464456     1112748       41452      475320     1405128
  Swap:         45052           0       45052
(beware of punch-in-the-eye colors) https://dietpi.com/#download

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