Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
[...] While it has been possible to get Alpine on the Pi for some time – Raspberry Pi 2 owners have been able to get it working since version 3.2.0 – this is the first version to add support for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and also offer an arm64 (aarch64) image to ease deployment.
The Pi 3 Model B+ packs a surprising amount of power into a small package, rocking a 64 bit 1.4GHz processor and gigabit ethernet (over USB 2.0). The 1GB RAM (unchanged from the previous Model B) should give the slimline Alpine incarnation of Linux more than enough headroom, depending what else you decide to run.
[...] Alpine's frugal nature makes it appealing as an alternative to some of the more resource intensive distributions available for the Pi, with optimisations such as OpenRC replacing systemd as the init system. A minimal disk installation will only consume around 130MB and the maintainers claim a container only needs 8MB.
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(Score: 5, Touché) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 03 2018, @12:59PM (4 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday July 03 2018, @01:18PM (3 children)
Dump that poettering junk. There was one point where I had a bunch of trouble fighting with avahi which was sucking up 100% CPU. It's a useless piece of shit so I turned it off. Then systemderp gave us trouble creating a service for running a daemon. damn Lindows.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by urza9814 on Tuesday July 03 2018, @01:38PM (2 children)
I've been playing with Void Linux lately, and might end up switching my laptop over to that soon. Haven't tried it on a Pi yet, but they do support it (at least the Pi 1/2...doesn't mention the 3):
https://voidlinux.org/download/ [voidlinux.org]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:28PM
Another Void user here :) Artix Linux is nice too and comes default with Runit now, though I've noticed it seems a liiiittle buggy compared to Void.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:57PM
Thanks for that void reminder. Hmmmm... rolling, optional musl libc, bsd licensing of their tools, no systemd;runit looks very interesting, and libressl. I'm liking what I see.