Alpine Linux 2 review
Aug 25, 2010, 19:37 (0 Talkback[s])
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"Alpine Linux is a distribution designed primarily for
use as a router, firewall and application gateway. The latest
stable version, Alpine Linux 2.0, was released last week (August
17, 2010). This review is the first for this distribution on this
site, and also marks its first listing in the Firewall & Router
category.
"Installation: Installation of Alpine Linux to hard disk is via
a text-based interface. The setup-disk script takes care of the
completed automated installation, and the whole process takes less
than two minutes. By default, the script creates the following
partitions (test installation on an x86 computer with a 250 GB hard
drive):
* /boot of 100 MB
* swap of about 1 GB
* / takes up the rest of the disk space"
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