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Alpine Linux 3.16 released

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Re: Alpine Linux 3.16 released

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Postmarket OS is an arm based derivative of Alpine Linux, which is one of the better working OSes for the Pinebook Pro. They created an SPI boot loader for ARM, that is nice to use, providing Grub sort of capability to the system. I never got my head around apk-tools, the Alpine package manager. In fact I never really could figure out the need Alpine was trying meet. I gather one of the main features is that Alpine makes it easy or easier to create reproducible systems. Laptops, desktop, SBCs or whatever can be setup with identical DE and software with ease.
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