On Friday 06 June 2014 10:50:24 Silvan Jegen wrote: > Hi everyone > > I just learned that Alpine Linux[0] has switched to musl libc[1]. The > following are the most interesting facts about Alpine Linux: > > * No GNU tools (using busybox) > * musl libc (still in Beta though) > * OpenRC initsystem > * Using their own package manager called apk[2]; C source is here[3] > > While it is not statically linked it seems to be the Linux > distribution that is closest to the suckless philosophy at the moment. > > Does anyone here have some experience with it? >
I am dual booting this distro at the moment. Very easy to install and set-up with nice instructions on the web page. I definitely find it a desktop-class distro (however due to various needs, especially Libre Office for collaborative writing stuff at work I still have Arch as primary OS).
