[HN Gopher] Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro ___________________________________________________________________ Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro Author : lastdong Score : 4 points Date : 2022-03-10 22:49 UTC (11 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (wiki.alpinelinux.org) (TXT) w3m dump (wiki.alpinelinux.org) | lastdong wrote: | It's used to build pretty much every Docker image around us. | Works extremely well as WSL. Super lightweight, performant, and | the number of packages is growing strong. | | Pair it with xcfe (or gnome or kde) and you have a super desktop, | no more worries about RAM or background processes eating up CPU | (looking at you Windows). | | Yes, there's a Blender package! and many other good stuff. | | Alpine made Linux fresh again, and yes I have 32GB of RAM and a | fast CPU and SSD, using Alpine will make sure it stays fast | | It needs much less than that to run, of course, it's brilliantly | focused. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-10 23:00 UTC)