I made a really low quality YouTube video talking about why I switched to Alpine Linux and rambling, if you are curious here is a link, I've never made videos before so please excuse the low quality 😂
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- don't download binary AppImages. just compile source tarballs tar.gz of the software you need with "./configure ; make ; make install"
(#Slackware way?)
if this instruction won't work - that's a bad software - gotta rewrite software. (build scripts, build instructions, makefiles). optionally could build apk packages.
- install & use 3rd party source based package managers : nixpkgs, bsd ports, gentoo's portage.
- could install glibc in parallell. compile, link vs it in /opt
- use AppImages, Snaps, Flatpaks, Docker images in vm.
- could look in to Conan, Bazel, CMake for free build scripts.
Alpine+musl best selling feature - is a possibility to statically compile portable binaries, avoiding dependency hell.
#linux #alpine #development #unix #bsd #musl #glibc #appimage #devops #gentoo #nixos #nixpkgs