Super Small Footprint Yet Simple To Use Linux Distro Alpine Linux

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• Could you make a tutorial on how to create NFS shares between alpine VM? losing my mind over here…

• 7:51 WHat the heck does 'EX-Cape' mean? 🙂

• Alpine rocks!

• Thanks for this. I was trying to get Alpine running in an LXC to run things like MQTT with minimal resources. I used to use Docker, but wanted to transition to LXC and needed a reminder of the Alpine commands. The Debian LXC is so big compared to Alpine. No more bloat.

• on what os are you running Wazuh ?

• 7:02 ubuntu xD well its not same. install everything same as that ubuntu it will same big lol. so whats debian smallest core. only everything to boot bash. it could be stripped even more AND when you learn make it your self. you not need any distros. distros are killing linux. distros should be just wallpaper.
  3% linux desktop use. thats like nothing. nobody actually use linux. its just test machine lol that not boot after update.
  windows problem can fix linux problem mean reinstall.
  and minimal debian use 11mb

• 7:50 i'm french, so i didn't understand what you said after escape, and youtube subtitles not understand, please help me!

• not sure why but installing docker for eaxample takes ages. besides having i5 12gen 12 threads on proxmox. should be hella fast. i installed alpine same as you did, only difference i did 2gb disk space. 1gb ram. 2 cores. if i monitor resources its not using alot of cpu or ram. nothing. i changed dns to google. 8888 and 8484 but everything seems slow. downloading / installing. any idea?

  The host is plugged in on cat6 ethernet cable. i got 1000mbit. it has static ip also tried changing host to same dns of google namesvers

  Edit: i disabled firewall at network setting of the VM and now its fast…

• Best option is to literally build your own distro using Yocto or buildroot

• Hi Don
  setup alpine does not run
  Is there another way to get this to work ?

• Thank you for a nice intro to Alpine
  I plan to test this as a Kubernetes K3S Node server in my proxmox

• I would love it if the Ox64 took off like the pico as it is afaster, and has an Open ISA RISC-V

• Have you looked into the Ox64 yet? It's like a hybrid between a Pi Pico and a Pi Zero W. You can do embedded microcontroller tasks with it, or you can run linux even!

• OpenRC is the goat man. Systemd is main issue with Ubuntu server

• Hey Don, great video! I switched from Linux Mint to Alpine on my laptop and now will start using it as my daily driver OS. I also installed the xfce desktop and it works very well, at idle only 230MB RAM used! Keep those awesome videos coming. 😁

• Been playing about with getting this on hardware, but all troubleshooting guides are biased towards docker. Very frustrating!

• nice video,
  this is super interesting, i was looking for a lite linux version for proxmox, it's for installing docker on a raspberry pi, i never use distro that dont use "apt"
  but if i just need to install docker that should be fine

  edit: i have install alpine on proxmox as Container Template (raspberryPi4), i'm impressed

  alpine CT :
  storage used : 105mo
  RAM : 7mo
  CPU : 7-10%

  debian CT:
  storage used : 492mo
  RAM : 23mo
  CPU: 7-20%

  thx

• Great video. I just did a test install on Proxmox of both Ubuntu server and Alpine. For Ubuntu, I chose the minimal install. I installed Docker and Docker Compose on both. Alpine is currently using less than half the RAM that the minimal Ubuntu server is. I may start running Alpine for all my servers here at home. I'm going to test further setting Alpine up as an lxc as others here in the comments mentioned.

• I was able install alpine in UTM VM on my M1 Mac and with htop is only 69 MB of ram! BTW that startup looks like gentoo.

• Most impressive. For a low resource desktop, I've been running AntiX.

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