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 jmorris on Wednesday July 04 2018, @12:21AM (4 children)
Yea, it really is getting out of hand. If you pick on some Mac using fairy you would get banned for two offenses. The usual and...
You can't even make jokes about technology in a tech project. "Technological preference" is now a protected class. First I'd heard of that one. $current_year moves faster and faster. Madness.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday July 04 2018, @01:31AM (2 children)
FFS! Everyone has the right to a vi vs emacs flame war!
I mean, it's really a bit of a useful rite of passage, defending your editor of choice against the horde. If you can't make sane arguments and keep a clear enough head to ignore responding the emotional ones, you'll get to repeat the lesson until you learn that there will always be others with differing opinions which you cannot budge.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:13AM (1 child)
But that might lead to bad feelz in some modern snowflake that has been raised to believe their beliefs can never, ever, under no circumstance, be questioned. Better everyone wear a muzzle than one snowflake have sadz. Doesn't matter what, just never question them. If they are thirty and still believe in the Easter Bunny you better not so much as snicker or it will be off to the camps with you unless you have several more Intersectionality points than they do, then you might escape with a stern warning.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:35AM
Well I ain't puttin' up with that bullshit, and if it means I'll need to sprinkle more expletives in my correspondence to keep such wankers away from me, then so be it. Now sod off ya git! :P
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 05 2018, @02:10PM
Would tabs vs spaces count as a "Technological preference"?
What about a Technological Orientation instead of Preference? I was born this way (to use tabs). It is an immoral and unnatural act to use spaces for indentation.
Difference between Behavior and Orientation:
Behavior:
Orientation:
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.