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Alpine Linux does not make the news (drewdevault.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s just a general purpose distro…

What is the “real” purpose of Debian or Arch?

And it’s really not that niche - many Docker images are based on it, postmarketOS is based on it.

Also OpenBSD is not a distro, it’s a completely different OS.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the “real” purpose of Debian or Arch?

I should have been more clear -- Debian/Arch "just works" and (both low/mid/high users) do not need of anything beyond that. And both Alpine/OpenBSD do not provide an extra "need" to anything of what both Debian/Arch already does. Unless if Alpine and/or OpenBSD provides a feature that makes Arch/Debian obsolete in any way.... then yep, both will become more relevant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Judging by various posts I’ve seen Arch and Debian both don’t “just work” for many users.

Also I really don’t get your point about providing a feature to make others “obsolete”… what do popular distros like Manjaro or Mint provide that make Arch/Ubuntu obsolete? And at least Manjaro has managed to be in the news quite a few times unfortunately.

The point of the article is that Alpine works, both on a technical level and as a project, without unnecessary drama.

I’d (mostly) say the same about OpenBSD too, btw.