Alpine Linux
A tiny, security-minded distro on musl and BusyBox, the base image of countless containers. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Alpine Linux team
- Created by
- Natanael Copa
- First release
- 2005
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://alpinelinux.org
- Family
- Independent
- Based on
- Independent
- Package manager
- apk
- Package format
- apk
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- Every 6 months
- Support lifetime
- 2 years
- Init system
- OpenRC
- Default desktop
- None
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Containers, Server, Embedded
- Backed by
- A community
- Beginner friendliness
- 2 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64, aarch64, armv7, ppc64le, s390x, riscv64, x86