Alpine is really good for servers.

Man I love alpine even though I don't use it so much but alpine does hold a special place in my heart for some reason (and i think the reasons are good)

Tinycore is another one which holds a special place in my heart, partially because its the most no BS simple alpine-like os that I have seen which is rather focused on the consumer side, so you can get GUI systems super quickly and minimalist.

The minimalist tinycore iso with gui and terminals ran on 21-40 MB :) let that sink in

They showed as 0.0% or 0.1% on my 8 gig computer.

I used tinycore to take my really old laptop which my brother used to game on mostly and was super dead, it was a dell mini pc with intel atom 1 gig of ram 32 bit, probably 10-15 years old

I ran tinycore on it with no problem and ended up with wifi access and then even ran modern firefox browser and ended up even running a website like https://pomodorokitty.com/ on it

Man,do i love them both.

I genuinely just wanted to create a service which could just boot tinycore gui servers in the browser perhaps via novnc for people to play with but I seriously wondered who might pay for the project

Oh btw oops forget that you can already do that by just downloading the iso of tinycore and then going to copy.sh/v86

In fact that inspired me to create the project but one of the issues of copy.sh/v86 is that its ephemeral and runs directly in your browser so if you close it whereas I thought of having a mini-server-like tinycore where I can get a gui mini server and can quickly open/close it with terminal and even heck modern browsers.

Everyone should try out tinycore just once imo. The simplicity of 21 MB is mind boggling to me. Makes one really wonder what bloat really is I suppose, definitely a fun experience.

Oh also I love alpine because I ran it in my phone using UserLand and I loved it although running python in alpine was a bit of mess on my phone and I think I ended up doing some wizard magic or something using g-compat in the end as well to run it. Although I think termux is pretty good and even better than UserLand in this context because UserLand runs emulated where Termux doesn't I guess but not sure.

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yjftsjthsd-h 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Alpine is also pretty good as a desktop OS; I've got a desktop and laptop on Alpine, and another laptop on postmarketos (Alpine derivative).

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting, I had looked at postmarketos but it was too bloated for me perhaps the last time I looked as compared to tinycore which was truly super minimalist Like is there a way to get postmarketos with something like jwm or anything small perhaps? I would love to give alpine desktop a try, I think I did the disservice of not trying it enough then if you mention this

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jaypatelani 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you liked tinycore check this one https://smolbsd.org/