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Alpine Linux Diskless Mode

45 points| kblissett | 5 months ago |wiki.alpinelinux.org

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fiscalnonsense|4 months ago

Diskless rocks for making appliances. I have rock solid raspberry pi based micro-sd based services because of this - diskless mode keeps the sd writes to a minimum. unplug the power at will? sure, go for it.

tomcam|4 months ago

Isn't this... kind of having your cake and eating it too? With RAM being so generous these days (especially compared to Alpine's memory requirements) wouldn't it make sense to run this way all the time on a desktop?

AtlasBarfed|4 months ago

But we NEED JavaScript on the desktop!

LargoLasskhyfv|4 months ago

> It is similar to what other linux distributions may call a "frugal" install or boot using a "toram" option.

Indeed. For instance AntiX turns Debian into a speed demon, that way. But much more refined.

bArray|4 months ago

> Proudly anti-fascist "antiX Magic" in an environment suitable for old and new computers.

AntiX looks like a cool project, but the one place I don't want to see any kind of politics is in my OS [1]. I don't want my distro taking a stance on Israel vs Palestine, or Ukraine vs Russia, for example.

[1] https://antixlinux.com/