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In Praise of Alpine and APK

by @WhyNotHugo whynothugo.nl 8 min read

Since the change of year, I’ve been using Alpine Linux on my main computing device (a new desktop PC that I assembled in December). These are some notes on in, some niceties and caveats.

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