Alpine Linux:Trivia

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The first release

The name

"Alpine" originally stood for A Linux Powered Integrated Network Engine. The idea was that the distribution would be focused on networking, and be a tiny "engine" or framework, which larger systems could be built upon. Today, "Alpine" is nothing more than a name.

Who is working on Alpine Linux?

  • Check the statistics of cgit, e. g. aports

Packages

Packages per release

Release Total normal dev doc libs
3.12 4832 3172 500 1073 87
3.11 5352 3430 620 1211 91
3.10 5669 3724 631 1224 90
3.9 5703 3721 652 1241 89
3.8 5674 3652 663 1272 87
3.7 5699 3629 683 1298 89
3.6 5548 3510 681 1271 86
3.5 5643 3615 678 1264 86
3.4 5231 3253 664 1235 79
3.3 5314 3328 676 1239 71
3.2 5277 3343 684 1189 61
3.1 4860 3075 620 1109 56
3.0 4410 2752 578 1029 51
2.7 4205 2605 570 982 48
2.6 3918 2405 534 943 36
2.5 3676 2233 498 912 33
2.4 3376 2021 457 874 24
2.3 3146 1866 435 827 18
2.2 2608 1502 444 652 10
2.1 2135 1222 365 547 1
2.0 1983 1139 332 511 1
1.10 1639 918 282 438 1
1.9 958 549 139 269 1
Aports
Aports

Commit per year to aports

2008 : 146
2009 : 3122
2010 : 3365
2011 : 5561
2012 : 5312
2013 : 6597
2014 : 5759
2015 : 7315
2016 : 9065
2017 : 11661
2018 : 9546
2019 : 18759
2020 : 22076
2021 : 25720

"High score list" of committer to aports

Don't get this the wrong way...those are just numbers. Every single contributions is making a difference.

 39506  Natanael Copa
 14682  Leo
  7206  Francesco Colista
  5969  Jakub Jirutka
  5102  Bart Ribbers
  3807  Ariadne Conill
  3549  Leonardo Arena
  3286  Rasmus Thomsen
  3126  Sören Tempel
  3113  Carlo Landmeter
  2889  Timo Teräs
  2850  J0WI
  2800  Michał Polański
  2665  Andy Postnikov
  2430  prspkt
  2390  Fabian Affolter
  2000  Kevin Daudt
  1670  psykose
  1641  Milan P. Stanić
  1464  Roberto Oliveira

== First commit to aports == 4990830/ The first commit in git was made:

commit 645531103b2ee8ef54d53a58eca3b52f7d3fb9ac
Author: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 18 09:16:29 2008 +0000

    added busybox