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Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by pantalaimon on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:05AM (#33731372)
Is apk a classic package manager in that it installs packages to the file system or does it use overlays?

The line

> Alpine Linux is designed to run from RAM

in the wiki almost makes it sound like OpenWRTs opkg where the root fs is readonly.

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Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:40PM (#33734011)
Alpine can do both, actually; a "sys" install does a traditional root filesystem, but Alpine also can run... I think a ro root with a single rw overlay with all added packages(?)
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