Alpine Linux: The First Installation

In this video, I am going to install Alpine Linux for the first time with the XFCE desktop environment. Alpine Linux uses the Openrc init system.

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My Hardware:
AMD Ryzen 9
32 GB RAM
Sapphire RX 5700 XT

My software:
Distro: Arch Linux
Video editing software: Kdenlive

#linuxmadesimple

[crazyaccess]

This is actually a good initiative to demonstrate the wide range of distributions, and the alpine's use of openrc is good as it exposes the linux community to not think systemd is the only integrated linux init system.

Appreciate the work.

[benarcher]

Interesting. Alpine seems to be a good lightweight alternative. Will follow this for sure! Thanks again Ermanno for all your contributions to the GNU/Linux community.

[dreamok]

About 8 years ago I installed alpine Linux on an old laptop and loved the release so much it is now my default Linux choice. What I particularly like is that Alpine installs very minimaly and then you can add whatever you want (and leave out everything else). I`ve been running Linux since early Slackware releases and the Alpine developers have created a Linux how _I_ think it ought to be.
OK I am not a typical user. Who is?
Alpine is also very suitable as the base for containers. It works really well in that environment too.

[keyboard_g]

Thanks for the video. Well done. Would love to see more of Alpine.

[zrmus]

Thanks for walk us through the installation, Ermanno.👍👍

[grubbermeister]

Love Alpine. Works great with my ancient Toshiba Satellite.

[gpubvhi]

Ermanno, Excellent video as usual. And you look healthy! I am glad.

[testtest-xzec]

Creating a bootable complete operating system on an usb stick (support for different CPUs, not so much available storage) with alpine would be nice to be covered.

[afterlife]

Thank you!!I'm interested in Alpine Linux.. was looking forward for videos!!thank you so much

[onoff]

Thank you so much for the wonderful video. I had been hoping to install Alpine for now about 10 years (since ~2012) and after seeing how easily you navigated setup and your excellent recommendations and clear explanations, I got a refurbished ASUS laptop and just a few minutes out of the box it now has Alpine (cryptsys) and XFCE running! Amazing.

[kaandesu]

Thanks a lot for the video! using this on my ibm thinkpad r40 with 256mb ram, works really well. only didn't add the desktop env works like a charm. (added a reverse tunnel to my main pc and connecting with ssh so that i can daily drive this guy).

[md.minhaz]

Thanks Ermanno for such a wonderful video ❤❤

[tiitulitii]

This was just the right time for me. Thanks!

[MichealG]

🙏 Thank you. Wish you the best. And waiting for this series about alpine

[jesse]

I would love to see this walk-through with GNOME installed, if possible. Thank you Ermanno!

[act..]

I can't get over how fast Alpine feels.

[mavricksands]

Great and comprehensive video. Used to install on virt-manager

[Taernsietr]

I actually want to try building a system from Alpine for my mother's aging Intel i3-based laptop, and I'm afraid I'm not experienced enough in Linux to do that. But this video is just the kind of stepping stone I've been looking for :).

Excellent content and delivery as always!

[Chinaguy]

Thanks for this one Ermanno. One question could you share your opinion on using Alpine as home server os ?

[momomaniac]

Alpine Linux has flatpaks and has awesome window manager
and dwm if i'm not mistaken
i personally tried alpine with awesome wm it was very good experience
Alpine too has kde plasma