Re:Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (intr...
by csdvrx on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:02AM
(#35327607)
> Is there really a reason to use Alpine anymore?
There are already many reasons.
As cosmopolitan advances, there will be even more: think about what you could do with a set of binaries that would run anywhere.
That'll happen way sooner with a muslc based distribution than with any other libc, and there aren't many muslc distributions as popular as alpine (except Void): https://wiki.musl-libc.org/projects-using-musl.html
Re:Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (intr...
by viraptor on Monday March 27, 2023 @03:52PM
(#35331503)
What could you do? Normally we deploy to a known environment with a chosen OS. Unless I'm a distributor of closed source software, why should I be interested in cosmopolitan?
There are already many reasons.
As cosmopolitan advances, there will be even more: think about what you could do with a set of binaries that would run anywhere.
That'll happen way sooner with a muslc based distribution than with any other libc, and there aren't many muslc distributions as popular as alpine (except Void): https://wiki.musl-libc.org/projects-using-musl.html