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