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[...] 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: 2) by richtopia on Tuesday July 03 2018, @02:47PM
SBCs are a bit of a hobby of mine. I haven't used the Rock64 before but really like the specs on it.
I personally run ODROIDs myself, as they seem to have one of the largest communities (probably the second largest, although the Pine64 community is also alive as you probably know).
From my testing, the two most important things I've identified are driver support and community. Bashing your head against a wall on some poorly documented piece of hardware is not worth saving 30 dollars. And when it comes to SBCs, speed typically isn't an issue. None of them are fast, but the jobs asked of them match the hardware.
To be honest, my webserver has moved back to x86 on my circa 2010 laptop. I migrated to Docker, and while they support ARM and ARM64 most containers are build only for AMD64. Between that and the ability to upgrade the processor and memory from ebay purchases really made the laptop the better choice.