[MichaelMoser123]

Interesting that alpine didn't get mentioned, i thought that was the most common option for a slim Linux running inside containers.

[dharmab]

Alpine is a general purpose OS; You can run it as a desktop or server OS on real hardware.

[squarefoot]

> You can run it as a desktop or server OS on real hardware.

And it literally rocks at that. I would strongly encourage everyone with an old or small pc/laptop/sbc/whatever that is too resource limited to run a "regular" distro, to try Alpine on it. The amount of resources saved thanks to using musl instead of glibc is astounding.

[MichaelMoser123]

still they do have a strong focus on size reduction, like using musl instead of glibc.

[slondr]

As pmOS folks (and anyone running alpine on their desktop or server) will happily tell you, size reduction is not a goal only relevant to container runtimes.

[MichaelMoser123]

today i learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS - "an operating system primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS

"Alpine Linux was chosen as the base distribution due to its low storage requirements, making it more suitable for older devices. Excluding the kernel, a base installation takes up approximately 6 MB"

i guess that would also make a more secure phone, one that is less likely to call it's mother ship.

thanks for the tip!

[MichaelMoser123]

too bad that device support isn't stellar :-( https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

[slondr]

I ran it on my PinePhone for awhile, and it was really nice interacting with the base system, though I eventually moved to Arch.