Praise for Alpine Linux

Re:Praise for Alpine Linux by katzeilla on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:13AM (#27105620)

I love alpine, it's such a good fit when building rootfs for embedded devices with limited ram/rom. however I wish there can be a nixOS-like way to manage my configurations.

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Re:Praise for Alpine Linux by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday May 10, 2021 @10:25AM (#27106268)

It seems like this is more likely to happen by getting nixos smaller than making Alpine declarative.

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Re:Praise for Alpine Linux by vereis on Monday May 10, 2021 @07:29PM (#27112211)

It isn't perfect but I just end up installing nix (the package manager) and home-manager and hacking together my configuration through that.

The majority of my NixOS configuration is written in NixOS agnostic modules so it works pretty well.

I share my NixOS configurations between one bare metal Alpine install as well as an Alpine WSL2 install.

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Re:Praise for Alpine Linux by nenolod on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:06PM (#27112548)

We are actually in the design phase for a declarative variant of Alpine using OSTree.

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Re:Praise for Alpine Linux by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday May 10, 2021 @08:26PM (#27112708)

That sounds fun; is anything public yet / where should I watch for announcements?

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Re:Praise for Alpine Linux by nenolod on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:18PM (#27113858)

If all goes to plan it will be part of Alpine 3.15 as a release variant.

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