(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=alpine
https://alpinelinux.org/
A simple security-focused distribution.
When I boot into it, I don't even know that I'm looking at. It's too simple. This is supposed to be a liveUSB but there's nothing there. No ext4 support.
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Raspberry Pi support.
Lacks:
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- https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Main_Page
- https://web.archive.org/web/20141022134706/http://alpinelinux.org/forum
- https://web.archive.org/web/20141022135654/http://alpinelinux.org/blog
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https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine
- redmine.alpinelinux.org/projects/alpine/issues/new
- https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_local_backup
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https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alpine_package
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- 2016-11-07 - What the fuck, this doesn't even do ext4?!
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2015-05-14 - When I boot into it, I don't even know that I'm looking at. It's too simple. This is supposed to be a liveUSB but there's nothing there.
2015-05-14 ∞
- https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/ - What the fuck are they thinking putting ISO descriptions in tooltips?!
- Prepping a liveUSB with UNetbootin was successful.
- The bootloader is very plain, and auto-started after a very short delay. It seemed to freeze for a while before giving any feedback that it was working.
- A proper textmode.
- A very fast bootup, with colour.
- There's no GUI / autologin.
- There's no hint as to how to log in. root autologged in without asking for a password.
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The login message mentions the wiki, but there is no facility to browse the net.
What the fuck am I looking at here? This isn't a liveUSB at all. For a 307MB ISO, there's nothing to look at. Their wiki suggests that this is a liveUSB-capable distribution. Well fuck this then.
2015-05-07 - 3.1.3 x86_64 ∞
- Trying again with Universal USB Installer (UUI)
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It was not bootable. I give up.
2015-05-07 - 3.1.3 x86_64 ∞
- dd won't work, this needs some other program to build a bootloader on a usb drive.
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Creating a bootable USB stick requires a CDROM. Are you fucking kidding me? FAIL.
I tried LiLi but it didn't work. I submitted the distro to them.
Last updated 2020-03-17 at 22:57:47