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by wchar_t 1675 days ago
I use it as a daily driver on my Raspberry Pi. Since the community is small the package repositories are a bit small as well, and I occasionally have to build stuff by hand (painful on the Pi). Add musl to the ARM platform and most binaries in the wild won't run. However, musl and apk means the Alpine is a lot faster than, say, Raspbian or Arch.
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I love Alpine on the Raspberry Pi Zero family. Not only does this create a durable and speedy ramdisk appliance, but experience configuring and minimizing the build size translates to containers as well.