User:Sertonix/Freedom of choice

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: systemd-boot

Libc

Name	Support	Notes
musl	Full	Default
glibc	None	Running glibc programs

Initramfs

Name	Support	Notes
mkinitfs	Full	Default
dracut	Full
booster	Full
tinyramfs	None
without	None	may require custom Kernel, kisslinux without initramfs

• See also: Initramfs init

Pid 1

Name	Support	Notes
busybox init	Full	Default
s6-linux-init	Needs testing
dumb-init	Needs testing	For containers
runit-init	Needs testing	runit-init starting OpenRC
epoch	Needs testing
sinit	None
Felker init	None
systemd	None

• See also: Archwiki

Service Manager

Name	Support	Notes
OpenRC	Full	Default
runit	As OpenRC service
s6-rc	In development ?
daemontools	Needs testing
daemontools-encore	Needs testing
supervisor	Needs testing
dinit	None	unofficial test
busybox runit	None
svc	None
sysmgr	None
upstart	None
sysmgr	None
systemd	None

• See also: Gentoo Wiki
• See also: Archwiki

System Logs

Name	Support	Notes
busybox syslog	Full	Default
rsyslog	Full
syslog-ng	Full
systemd-journald	None

• See also: Syslog

Device Manager

Name	Support	Notes
mdev	Full	Default
mdevd	Full
eudev	Full
smdev	None
vdev	None
systemd-udev	None

Power Managment

Name	Support	Notes
busybox acpid	Full	Default
acpid	Full
elogind	Needs testing
systemd-logind	None

• See also: Archwiki

DHCP Client

Name	Support	Notes
busybox udhcpc	Full	Default
dhcpcd	Full
dhclient	Full
sdhcp	None

• See also: Archwiki

Wi-Fi

• See: Wi-Fi

Seat/Session Managnent

Name	Support	Notes
elogind	Full
seatd	Full	seats only
systemd-logind	None

Login

Name	Support	Supports PAM	Notes
busybox login	Full	No	Default
greetd	Full	Yes	requires greeter
shadow-login	Full	Yes
util-linux-login	Full	Yes
systemd-logind	None	Yes

Shell Utils

Name	Support	Notes
busybox	Full	Dependency of alpine-base
busybox-extras	Full	Some commands that are missing in the busybox package
util-linux	Full
coreutils	Full
toybox	Needs testing
sbase	Needs testing
ubase	Needs testing

• See also: Archwiki

Shell

Name	Support	Notes
busybox ash	Full	Default
bash	Full

• Change default shell
• See also: Archwiki

SU

Name	Support	Notes
sudo	Full
doas	Full	sudo shim using doas: doas-sudo-shim
without	Full

SSL/TLS

Name	Support	Notes
openssl	Full	Default
libressl	Needs testing
bearssl	Needs testing

• See also: consider LibreSSL as default OpenSSL provider again
• See also: Archwiki
• See also: haproxy SSL Libraries Support Status

Cron

Name	Support	Notes
cronie	Full
dcron	Full
fcron	Full
vixie-cron	None
scron	None
systemd-timer	None

• See also: Archwiki

SSH

Name	Support	Notes
openssh	Full
dropbear	Full	provide ssh command dropbear-ssh

• See also: Archwiki

Desktop

• See: Desktop environments and Window managers
• See also: Desktop environment - Archwiki

See Also

• Alpine security applications
• Alpine Architecture