Alpine Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Alpine Linux Average rating 8.8 from 36 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Alpine Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 3.20.33.19.43.18.93.17.103.16.93.15.113.14.103.13.123.12.113.10.63.6.23.2.22.7.81.10.6 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 3.20.1 Rating: 1 Date: 2024-07-10 Votes: 2 Alpine Linux has SSE and SSE2 as a CPU requirement . I don't know wether it is because of this but Alpine 3.20.0 and up will also not start anymore on my Pentium I,II and III hardware. This is a enormous great pity in many aspects! Who's next? Most distro's that claim they're suitable for i386, i486 , i586 or i686 processors also implement SSE(2). This makes them, in fact, only suiteable for the higher end i686 processors (approx.) starting with pentium IV. Distro's that still run on Pentium I,II and III hardware are becoming very rare now. Crazy! I really did put quite some time not to find the abounded "Illegal Instruction" in i386, i486 , i586 distro's. There is some luck because old non-active versions of Alpine linux are still there incl. the repos. And TinyCore Linux and NetBSD are active distro's that still continue respecting these old pc's. For me they seem the safest choice for now. To be honest I have to bring my vote for Alpine Linux back from 10 to 1 for Alpine seemed to have dropped support for old computers and old computers are my passion. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.19.1 Rating: 5 Date: 2024-05-31 Votes: 0 I've been using Alpine for 5-6 years. Headless machine for Nextcloud. Unfortunately, each new version brought its own proper mess. No indications provided : you're on your own. Succeeded to figure it out till 3.19->3.20 where I'm stuck (transitional package nextcloud28 can't be installed). No support whatsoever, so I'm giving up. Also, be aware that systemctl isn't used. No EFI install and you'll have to stick with grub (obviously not a problem in a single boot headless machine - except for grub's own mess). A remarkable distro from dev/sysadmin to dev/sysadmin. If you're not among the happy few, look for something more mainstream.. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 3.19.1 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-05-13 Votes: 88 Decided to give Alpine a spin whilst Void transitioned to Plasma 6 but I might stay with Alpine. During the installation (which was a very simple process) confused me because I thought the downloads were not working, but low and behold, they were just very fast. A download from DNF from Fedora for example would take up 15 to 20 seconds to download a 1.5GB package whilst APK from Alpine would take about 5 seconds (maybe less) for the same size, just incredible. Alpine is very customizable in terms of packages so you can only download the stuff you need. Also Alpine uses Musl for further minimalist installs as appose to the common Glibc so there may be instances where flatpaks will be your best friend. Overall I'm really enjoying Alpine, currently using KDE with flatpaks for some gaming,general web browsing and some emulation and it has been a blast. I would not recommend to new users due to needing some knowledge on the packages you need for your build and setting up services such as dbus. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 36 reader reviews of Alpine Linux...