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Alpine Linux

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Alpine Linux

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Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes, containers, and servers. It was designed with security in mind; it has proactive security features like PaX and SSP that prevent security holes in the software to be exploited. The C library used is musl and the base tools are all in BusyBox. Those are normally found in embedded systems and are smaller than the tools found in GNU/Linux systems.
DesktopGNOME, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, Sway, Xfce
CategoryFirewall, From RAM, Raspberry Pi, Server, Security, Telephony
Based onIndependent
OriginNorway
Architectureaarch64, armv7, i486, loongarch64, ppc64le, riscv64, s390x, x86_64
Package managerAPK
Init systemBusybox, OpenRC
Filesystemext4
BrowserLinks
Release modelFixed
StatusActive
InstallationText mode
Alpine Linux Linux desktop screenshot