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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 05 2018, @02:10PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 05 2018, @02:10PM (#702977) Journal

    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:

    • I used spaces on my last project because that was the employer's requirements
    • I mated with someone of the opposite gender to produce offspring

    Orientation:

    • When I drive past a billboard with tabs, it's like my eyes are magnetically attracted to it
    • When I drive past a billboard using spaces, I can just ignore it
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