Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Pi-Lovers? There Are Two New OSes for You to Bite

posted by mrpg on Tuesday July 03 2018, @12:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-think-of-the-NUC dept.

"exec" writes:

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.

-- submitted from IRC

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Pi-Lovers? There Are Two New OSes for You to Bite | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 53 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday July 03 2018, @02:57PM (2 children)

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @02:57PM (#701924)

    odroid xu4

    real usb3, 8 cores, can be a traffic generator for gig-ethernet (2 full ports at very close to wire speed).

    pi's suck and continue to suck. the good thing about the pi is the community; without that, the pi would be just another half-ass sbc.

    --
    "It is now safe to switch off your computer."
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2  

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:02PM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:02PM (#701973) Homepage
    Yeah, the RasPi is the "cheap" option by every definition of the term. But it works as a low-throughput web- and mail server, and ssh/tmux/irc hub for a bunch of mates.

    root@razspaz:/var/log# uptime
      19:00:57 up 181 days, 6:43, 7 users, load average: 0.94, 0.53, 0.42
    --
    Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves

    • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:39PM

      by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:39PM (#701997)

      Yeah, the RasPi is the "cheap" option by every definition of the term. But it works as a low-throughput web- and mail server, and ssh/tmux/irc hub for a bunch of mates.

      root@razspaz:/var/log# uptime
          19:00:57 up 181 days, 6:43, 7 users, load average: 0.94, 0.53, 0.42

      You'll be glad to know there's a new version of software out, released last weekend. So much for your uptime :)

      --
      When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.