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This is an overview over the different available programms, etc. that can be selected from when using alpine. It is also intended as a reference what should be documented and what could be supported.

== Bootloaders ==
* See: [[Bootloaders]]
* Not supported: <code>systemd-boot</code>

== Kernel ==
* See: [[Custom Kernel]]

== Libc ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| {{Pkg|musl}} || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| [https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ glibc] || style="background:red" | None || [[Running glibc programs]]
|}
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Libc Gentoo Wiki]

== Initramfs ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| {{Pkg|mkinitfs}} || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| {{Pkg|dracut}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|booster}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| [https://github.com/illiliti/tinyramfs tinyramfs] || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| without || style="background:red" | None || may require [[custom Kernel]], [https://kisslinux.org/install#021 kisslinux without initramfs]
|}
* See also: [[Initramfs init]]
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs Gentoo Wiki]

== Pid 1 ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| busybox init || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| {{Pkg|s6-linux-init}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| {{Pkg|dumb-init}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing || For containers
|-
| runit-init || style="background:silver" | Needs testing || [https://dev.alpinelinux.org/~clandmeter/other/forum.alpinelinux.org/comment/383.html#comment-383 runit-init starting OpenRC]
|-
| {{Pkg|epoch}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| [https://core.suckless.org/sinit/ sinit] || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| [https://ewontfix.com/14/ Felker init] || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| systemd || style="background:red" | None ||
|}
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Init_system Gentoo Wiki]
* See also: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Init Archwiki]

== Service Manager ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| [[OpenRC]] || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| {{Pkg|runit}} || style="background:orange" | As OpenRC service ||
|-
| {{Pkg|s6-rc}} || style="background:silver" | In development ? ||
|-
| {{Pkg|daemontools}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| {{Pkg|daemontools-encore}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| {{Pkg|supervisor}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| [https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/ dinit] || style="background:red" | None || [https://davmac.org/projects/dinit/alpine-demo/ unofficial test]
|-
| busybox runit || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| [https://core.suckless.org/svc/ svc] || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| sysmgr || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| upstart || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| sysmgr || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| systemd || style="background:red" | None ||
|}
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Init_system Gentoo Wiki]
* See also: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Init Archwiki]

== System Logs ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| [[Syslog#busybox_syslog|busybox syslog]] || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| {{Pkg|rsyslog}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|syslog-ng}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{pkg|socklog}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| [https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-socklog.html s6-socklog] from {{pkg|s6}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| systemd-journald || style="background:red" | None ||
|}
* See also: [[Syslog]]

== [[Device Manager]] ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| [[mdev]] || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| [[mdevd]] || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| [[eudev]] || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| [https://core.suckless.org/smdev/ smdev] || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| vdev || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| systemd-udev || style="background:red" | None ||
|}

== Power Managment ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| [[busybox acpid]] || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| {{Pkg|acpid}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|elogind}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| systemd-logind || style="background:red" | None ||
|}
* See also: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management Archwiki]
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Power_management Gentoo Wiki]

== DHCP Client ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| [[Udhcpc|busybox udhcpc]] || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| {{Pkg|dhcpcd}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|dhclient}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| [https://core.suckless.org/sdhcp/ sdhcp] || style="background:red" | None ||
|}
* See also: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration#DHCP Archwiki]
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Resolv.conf Gentoo Wiki - resolv.conf]

== Wi-Fi ==
* See: [[Wi-Fi]]

== Seat/Session Managnent ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| {{Pkg|elogind}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|seatd}} || style="background:lime" | Full || seats only
|-
| systemd-logind || style="background:red" | None ||
|}
* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Seatd Gentoo Wiki - seatd]
* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind Gentoo Wiki - elogind]
* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Init#logind ArchWiki - systemd-logind]

== Login ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Supports [[PAM]] !! Notes
|-
| busybox login || style="background:lime" | Full || style="background:red" | No || Default
|-
| {{Pkg|greetd}} || style="background:lime" | Full || style="background:lime" | Yes || requires greeter
|-
| {{Pkg|shadow-login}} || style="background:lime" | Full || style="background:lime" | Yes ||
|-
| {{Pkg|util-linux-login}} || style="background:lime" | Full || style="background:lime" | Yes ||
|-
| systemd-logind || style="background:red" | None || style="background:lime" | Yes ||
|}
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Login Gentoo Wiki]

== Shell Utils ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| {{Pkg|busybox}} || style="background:lime" | Full || Dependency of {{pkg|alpine-base}}
|-
| {{Pkg|busybox-extras}} || style="background:lime" | Full || Some commands that are missing in the busybox package
|-
| {{Pkg|util-linux}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| [[GNU_core_utilities|coreutils]] || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|toybox}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| {{Pkg|sbase}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| {{Pkg|ubase}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|}
* See also: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Core_utilities Archwiki]

== Shell ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| busybox ash || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| {{Pkg|bash}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|}
* [[Change default shell]]
* See also: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Command-line_shell Archwiki]
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Shell Gentoo Wiki]

== SU ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| su from {{Pkg|busybox-suid}} || style="background:lime" | Full || default
|-
| su from {{Pkg|shadow-login}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| su from {{Pkg|util-linux-login}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|sudo}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|doas}} || style="background:lime" | Full || sudo shim using doas: {{Pkg|doas-sudo-shim}}
|-
| [https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-sudo.html s6-sudo] || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| without || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|}

== SSL/TLS ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| {{Pkg|openssl}} || style="background:lime" | Full || Default
|-
| {{Pkg|libressl}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|-
| {{Pkg|bearssl}} || style="background:silver" | Needs testing ||
|}
* See also: [https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/tsc/-/issues/28 consider LibreSSL as default OpenSSL provider again]
* See also: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Transport_Layer_Security Archwiki]
* See also: [https://github.com/haproxy/wiki/wiki/SSL-Libraries-Support-Status haproxy SSL Libraries Support Status]

== Cron ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| {{Pkg|cronie}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|dcron}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| {{Pkg|fcron}} || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| vixie-cron || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| scron || style="background:red" | None ||
|-
| systemd-timer || style="background:red" | None ||
|}
* See also: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Cron Archwiki]
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cron Gentoo Wiki]

== SSH ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Support !! Notes
|-
| [[Setting_up_a_SSH_server#OpenSSH|openssh]] || style="background:lime" | Full ||
|-
| [[Setting_up_a_SSH_server#Dropbear|dropbear]] || style="background:lime" | Full || provide ssh command {{pkg|dropbear-ssh}}
|}
* See also: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Secure_Shell Archwiki]
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSH Gentoo Wiki - OpenSSH]
* See also: [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dropbear Gentoo Wiki - Dropbear]

== Desktop ==
* See: [[Desktop environments and Window managers]]

== See Also ==
* [[Architecture|Alpine Architecture]]