Episode 3:08: Scaling the Alpine

Coming up in this episode 1. We're diskless 2. We take a LEAF out of the history book 3. We climb the Alpine mountain 4. Pick a very small editor 5. And we don our hoodies Youtube Link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W4NiS70bDU) Support us on Patreon! (https://www.patreon.com/linuxuserspace) 0:00 Cold Open 1:30 No Disks for You! 10:35 1997, LRP 11:43 2000, No More Money 13:09 2001, LRP Struggles 13:59 2003, LRP Put to Rest + LEAF and GNAP 14:58 2004, GNAP v0.5 15:04 2005, A Linux Powered Integrated Network Engine 16:18 2006, Alpine 1.4 | 2007, Alpine 1.5 and 1.6 16:37 2008, Alpine 2.0 Added Busybox 16:54 2009, Alpine 1.8 and 1.9 17:13 2010, Alpine 1.10 and 2.0 18:05 2011, Alpine 2.2 and 2.3 18:28 2012, Alpine 2.4 and 2.5 18:51 2013, Alpine and the Container Renaissance 20:11 2014, Alpine 3.0 and musl libc 20:43 2015, Alpine 3.2, 3.3 and Some Restructuring 21:19 2016, Alpine 3.4, 3.5 and OpenSSL 21:55 2017, Alpine 3.6, 3.7 and PostmarketOS 22:39 2018, Alpine 3.8 and Raspberry Pi 3 Support 23:01 2019, Alpine 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11 24:08 2020, Alpine 3.12 and the Last LEAF 24:28 2021, Alpine 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15 25:10 2022, Alpine 3.16 and the End of the History 26:45 What is Alpine, Really? 41:34 Our Thoughts on Alpine 1:04:07 Next Time! More Text Ed and a New Distro 1:13:58 Stinger Banter Disks! They're dead, Jim. Dan's 3TB Seagate - not noted for reliability but was reliable. Leo's 240GB Adata SU630 Announcements Give us a sub on YouTube (https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube) You can watch us live on Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) the day after an episode drops. If you like what we're doing here, make sure to send us a buck over at https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace Alpine Linux the History Back in 1997, Dave Cineage created the Linux Router Project, or LRP. (https://web.archive.org/web/19981212030604/http://www.linuxrouter.org/) The Linux Embedded Appliance Framework, or LEAF project was started (https://web.archive.org/web/20010702160257/http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=13751) Oxygen (https://web.archive.org/web/20010702153509/http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=47922) EigerStein (https://web.archive.org/web/20011101024349/http://leaf.sourceforge.net:80/content.php?menu=9&page_id=2) The Linux Router Project was done (https://web.archive.org/web/20060421174527/http://www.linuxrouter.org/) The LEAF project was still there (https://lwn.net/Articles/37894/) August of 2005, Natanael Copa, while working (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5n_5Idlxvo) for a non-profit company on VPNs and firewalls, announced (https://web.archive.org/web/20110615024325/http://osdir.com/ml/linux.leaf.devel/2005-08/msg00039.html) a new distribution on the linux.leaf.devel mailing list. Alpine originally stood for (https://web.archive.org/web/20100508011627/http://www.alpinelinux.org/wiki/About) A Linux Powered Integrated Network Engine. The earlier versions are a little cloudy, but we see (https://web.archive.org/web/20081013232448/http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page) Alpine 1.4 being developed in 2006, 1.5 in 2007, Alpine 1.6 released on April 30th of 2007 and the switch to development of 1.7 in the days after. Alpine 2.0, the then development branch, first commit "added busybox" (https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/commit/645531103b2ee8ef54d53a58eca3b52f7d3fb9ac) Alpine 1.9 (https://web.archive.org/web/20091103100326/http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=Release_Notes_for_Alpine_1.9.0) - OpenRC shipped and able to install on hard disks. A new website is launched (https://web.archive.org/web/20101212021228/http://alpinelinux.org/wiki/Main_Page) Alpine Linux 2.0 is released (https://web.archive.org/web/20100821094210/http://www.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Release_Notes_for_Alpine_2.0.0) The team announced the Alpine Linux Forum. (https://web.archive.org/web/20160531153546/http://www.alpinelinux.org:80/posts/Alpine-Linux-forums.html) Alpine 3.0 is released, and uClibc is dropped (https://alpineli