Alpine Linux★★★★★Lightweight Linux distribution with modern capabilities and smooth package management despite its low resource requirements. Good for small cloud servers, old hardware, Raspberry Pi, etc.
/dev/null: Permission denied on Alpine LinuxOne of my Alpine Linux VMs broke during an upgrade and started throwing errors about the permissions on /dev/null. Just fixing the permissions didn’t persist across reboots, but resetting the device manager did.
Count Upgradable Packages on Alpine LinuxTLDR: doas apk update, then apk list -uq | wc. You can automate checking for new packages, and you can use this shell script to report how many updates are available when you log in.
Running Gophernicus on Alpine LinuxI’m experimenting with Gopher again. The Gophernicus server works well on Alpine, but it takes a little extra work to get the prerequisites right.