I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, BusyBox/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, BusyBox plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning BusyBox system made useful by the BusyBox corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX…
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I know this is a joke but people calling it busybox/linux is how I came to understand what makes linux a separate thing from gnu.
Was this post written on pinePhone running PmOS?
No, but this one was - on SailfishOS
Busybox is just a toolbox in a distro trenchcoat.
apk (the best package manager): am I a joke to you?
…or as I’ve recently taken to calling it
Where’s that package manager tho?
It’s no RPM but apk is okay.
Its apk+openrc+busybox+a hardened kernel+musl
glibc: 😑🤚
musl: 😌👉 (unless you’re a python programmer)
Actually it’s Linux with an OpenBSD mask on.
Sounds right, if it’s made for small docker images busybox is the right way.
I just don’t like scripting with ash and busybox, it’s a very limited shell.
It’s nice to use though. I recently set up 2 VMs to act as Docker servers, one of which was Alpine (the other NixOS, as a learning project). It’s dead simple to set up and use. I was pleasantly surprised at how little I had to get used to considering musl + lack of systemd.
Have you run into any issues with alpine as the docker host? I thought about converting some of my vms to alpine or something similar too since they mostly just run docker
Not so far.
Bussy box
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
I’ve only installed it a couple of days ago in a vm and It’s pretty good but a couple of things are a bit startling if you’re coming from debian.
Eg. The lack of niceties like the ll alias. Or The config you have to go through to allow SSH Some utils I’m used to like broot refuse to install properly even though the apk exists. Fz-find doesn’t exist in the community repository.
But you can’t argue with apk - so much better than apt or how frugal it is re resources.
Looking forward to getting stuck into it a bit more.
Have you checked your bashrc file to see if the aliases are just commented out? I feel like it comes standard with bash but not every distro enables it by default.
That’s the point! It doesn’t come with bash as a shell, it comes with ash - even if you install bash and switch to it, bashrc is empty. It’s a bit bare bones, which is kind of charming, until it’s annoying. Haha!
