sodface wrote: > Hey Kev, > > I haven't used Ubuntu much so I can't really make an informed comparison > between it and Alpine. It's extremely petty of me, but the cutesy little > animal names they use for the Ubuntu releases irritate me and make me > not want to use it just for that. I'd rather just say that Alpine kind > of just "clicked" for me when I started using it and the fact that they > support a bunch of architectures means I can use it everywhere I need > it, router, desktop, rpi's, thin clients etc. So far, the only thing > that has a been a negative to me is that the Linux version of the > proprietary DAW, Reaper, only supports glibc and Alpine is based on musl > libc. I've tried to get Reaper to work on Alpine with the gcompat > package (a glibc / muslc translation layer) but it isn't stable. I have > a license for Reaper and I like it but if I want to use it on Linux I'll > have to use something other than Alpine. So depending on your use cases, > software compatibility on Alpine may be more of a problem than on > Ubuntu. For me, Reaper is the only example that I can give. > > I thought this blog post by Drew Devault was good and lines up with my > thoughts about Alpine, give it a read: > > https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/drewdevault.com/blob/master/content/blog/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.gmi
OK thanks, will have a read. Kev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112276 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
