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Alpine Linux 3.3.0 Is a Distro for People Who Love the Terminal
We’ve all got used to Linux distributions having nice desktops and friendly interfaces, but that’s only attractive to a part of the community. There are still many users out there who don’t need all that fanciness to do their work on a Linux system. Alpine is a Linux distribution that’s only controlled from the terminal, if the user goes with the default implementation. |
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I'll be sure to check that out.
Alpine is a different beast because of the C library and system binaries it uses. I had an old laptop setup as a server (NFS, CUPS, DLNA, DNS/DHCP, etc...everything I could throw at it), and was very impressed by the speed/resource use, stability, and ease of use compared to Arch that I had previously been using. The range of packages available and reasonable default configurations is outstanding.
Alpine is a different beast because of the C library and system binaries it uses. I had an old laptop setup as a server (NFS, CUPS, DLNA, DNS/DHCP, etc...everything I could throw at it), and was very impressed by the speed/resource use, stability, and ease of use compared to Arch that I had previously been using. The range of packages available and reasonable default configurations is outstanding.
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