Alpine Linux 3.15

Re:Alpine Linux 3.15 by xxpor on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @10:59AM (#29331292)

For an average user, I'd guess they'd hit more issues with busybox than musl.

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Re:Alpine Linux 3.15 by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:37AM (#29331834)

If you care, just install the `coreutils` package and it'll overwrite the default symlinks and you'll get GNU coreutils by default.

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Re:Alpine Linux 3.15 by xxpor on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:59AM (#29332139)

Oh thanks, that's good to know they're available.

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Re:Alpine Linux 3.15 by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @12:43PM (#29332730)

Yep:) If you found that useful, I'd suggest looking over all of https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How_to_get_regular_stuff_w...

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Re:Alpine Linux 3.15 by spyremeown on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:19AM (#29331564)

I hate how many incredibly useful and sane options and most of the time missing from busybox binutils... drivers me crazy.

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Re:Alpine Linux 3.15 by mikece on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @11:21AM (#29331586)

Are there any (lightweight?) desktop distros built atop Alpine as a base?

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Re:Alpine Linux 3.15 by clay-dreidels on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:23AM (#29341141)

I use it as a daily driver. Here is my setup. Coreutils is included.

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