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   OSNews (osnews@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 23:59:41 JST OSNews

   A BSD person tries Alpine Linux

   I’ve barely scratched the surface, but there’s enough here for me to seriously consider a switch to it as my primary Linux distro for testing and servers. I love that htop(1) and lsof(1) only shows a small list of recognisable processes, that it uses OpenRC, that package management seems straight forward, and that it’s so simple to configure. I’ve wondered what a modern, f

   https://www.osnews.com/story/139899/a-bsd-person-tries-alpine-linux-2/

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 00:02:35 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @osnews Heh, OpenRC feeling quite familiar isn't surprising as it was created by Roy Marples (NetBSD dev).
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     Paul SomeoneElse (pkw@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 00:33:40 JST Paul SomeoneElse

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan @osnews Alpine is great. Feels like a BSD :)
     No assumption that gnu is ubiquitous or even available.

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