A personal endorsement of Alpine Linux as the best Linux distribution for production and personal use. The author praises Alpine for its simplicity, stability, reliability, and robustness, highlighting the apk package manager as the fastest available and musl libc as a sound software choice. Weak points noted include documentation and occasional lack of strong project leadership. The author uses Alpine across all environments: servers, VMs, desktops, laptops, and mobile (via postmarketOS), and maintains nearly a hundred Alpine packages upstream.
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