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

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: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:14PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:14PM (#702082)

    Full disclosure: I've always found Raspbian to be sufficient to my needs on all manner of RPi.

    Within Raspbian, there once was an option to go either without or with systemd, the transition was pretty invisible from my use perspective, except: the systemd version booted faster, like half the time. Seemed like a good trade to me.

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