Natanael Copa wrote:
Alpine does look interesting, but, it looks more like a Debian derivative:
Can you please define "looks more like a Debian derivative"? I know for
sure its based on gentoo.
http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=Installing_Alpine#Managing_software_packages
apk-tools was inspired by the freebsd's binary package manager.
It was not a scientific evaluation. I saw packages and managing
packages, so since it was Linux based, I assumed Debian....
I took every bit of 5 minutes to look at Alpine, so, if my impressions
were wrong, it was probably because I expected to quickly find a
technical document that explains much of these sort of issues.
In the brief time I looked around at Alpine, I did not find technical
documents that explained the architecture of the (embedded) OS.
Also how does one creates binaries for the distro?
Do you have a url for such reading on Alpine?
And yes, Alpine is not designed for compile stuff on your target, even
if the pacakges are build from gentoo portage tree.
This is ok for me, particularly if the choices are many, and the
end result is stable. I'm keen on firewalls, dns servers and terminal
servers as a end result of the embedded OS. Robust operation on
CF based hard drives is a big plus (jffs2 or logFS).
James
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