Alpine Linux Desktop (DZone)
DZone takes a
look at Alpine Linux on an older laptop. "
The default installation is reasonably functional for console use. Even vi is present, though it is provided by Busybox and therefore doesn't contain all the glorious features to which I'm accustomed. I did have to immediately go back through setting up the wireless, as expected, but fortunately the changes are permanent. The most interesting part of getting started was to decide what to install. The notion of performing installations of bash, grep, awk, sed, and other common tools seem a little strange since we just automatically expect them to be present in non-Busybox form. The best part about the whole experience is that it feels like using Linux from five (or twenty) years ago, but with completely new and modern versions of things. It reminds me of my first Slackware install back in the mid-90s, but instead of feeding floppies I'm installing Git 2.6 from a fast Internet connection over a wireless network."