Alpine is a minimalist Linux distribution and uses musl as its libc, and BusyBox as core utilities. It forms the basis of postmarketOS

I use it with:

  • btrfs with zstd compression as root filesystem (if not using alpine on termux)

  • salt-minion

  • lame, ffmpeg, imagemagick, p7zip-full

  • wget, curl, elinks, w3m, lynx, lftp, openssh, mosh, gemini, aria2c, youtube-dl

  • caddy2, gemini

  • wine

  • qemu, gnome-boxes

  • git, tig, atop, slurm

  • openjdk11, visual studio code, meld

  • vassal, frotz, inform7, ink, cl-chess, halflife, quakespasm, simon tatham portable puzzle collection (pkg install sgt-puzzles), gnuchess, dvonn, pandamicsolo, tic80

  • gimp, gnumeric, firefox, thunderbrid, calibre, blender, neomutt

  • opensim, minetest

  • openstreetmap clients

  • wayland, freerdp, xfce with chicago95

  • logseq, hugo

  • spacemacs with org-mode

  • julia, python, ruby

  • jupyterlab with git, code-formatter, solarized-dark, xeus-sql, Spreadsheet, System Monitor, Plotly

  • astrolog, fortune

  • byteball