Alpine Linux has one of the fastest boot times of any operating system. It's famous because of its small size and it's heavily used in containers.
It's also well known for wide use in embedded devices and as a base system for many enterprise routers. The postmarketOS project, which is designed to run on mobile devices, is based on Alpine Linux.
Alpine Linux follows the principles of the SSS distro: Simple+Small+Secure: due to usage of muslc as the minimalist libc, BusyBox simple coreutils (with possibilities to alternate on inflated original packages of each coreutils tools also) and userland binaries compiled as Position Independent Executables (PIE) with stack smashing protection.
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Once you have downloaded an image, be sure to verify it for both security and integrity.
By calculating the image’s checksum on your own computer and comparing it to the original checksum, you can verify the image has not been tampered with or corrupted. Images are also gpg signed with Fedora keys to demonstrate their integrity.
Click the verify button to download the checksum file for your downloaded image.
Import Linuxrpms's GPG key(s)
curl -O https://linuxrpms.com/linuxrpms-gpg.pub
You can verify the details of the GPG key(s) here.
Verify the checksum file is valid
gpgv --keyring ./linuxrpms-gpg.pub alpinelinux-*-CHECKSUM
Verify the checksum matches
sha256sum -c alpinelinux-*-CHECKSUM
If the output states that the file is valid, then it's ready to use!
DVD for Intel and AMD x86_64 systems
Alpine Linux BETA Live ISO iso 4.3 GiB
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