Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro

Re:Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro by Tenoke on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:44PM (#30634202)

>due to the great popularity of Docker, Alpine Linux is one of the most deployed operating systems currently in use

Wow, that's impressive! However, when I check on Distrowatch it's only in the 30s. Is there a better statistic? Something more representative of actual amounts of installs on anything at all?

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Re:Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro by yumiris on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:51PM (#30634267)

DistroWatch counts by clicks to the distro's page from what I remember. Its statistics represent the "interest", rather than install count.

With regard to Alpine Linux on Docker, the install count[0] of the base image should give an idea (over 1 billion!).

[0] https://hub.docker.com/_/alpine

Edit: clarity

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Re:Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro by silisili on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:47PM (#30634228)

I've been down this path before and I can say for sure two things -

1 - Distrowatch stats are both gamed and useless

2 - There's no easy way to see which distro is most popular on the whole.

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Re:Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro by teawrecks on Thursday March 10, 2022 @07:48PM (#30634764)

iirc every intel cpu runs minix on its management engine. Might be a contender.

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