Re:You should make a blog!
by eximius on Sunday December 22, 2019 @08:46PM
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Drew: unrelated question having just read your software distribution post and noticing you use Alpine - have you tried NixOS? What does Alpine have (or lack that others have)?
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Not OP, neither an Alpine user, but tried it once.
For me, the main selling point of Alpine is that it's not what RMS would call "a GNU/Linux distribution", since it doesn't use the GNU userland. This means, no GNU libc (Musl instead), no GNU Coreutils (Busybox instead), etc.
It became kind of famous thanks to Docker because an Alpine image is (or at least, was) only sized at 6MB.