This page contains only irrelevant and unhelpful information and statistics about Alpine Linux. If you are going to prepare a talk about Alpine Linux, perhaps some information mentioned here can be used for the intro.

The first release

Archives going back to 1.1 are (currently) at http://ancient.alpinelinux.org
First public mention of "Alpine Linux" is archived here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.leaf.devel/1183 (2005)
The first saved release notes were made for 1.7.3.

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

aports statistics provided by Ohloh.

Packages per release

Release	Total	normal	dev	doc	libs
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

Commit per year to aports

2008 : 146
2009 : 3122
2010 : 3365
2011 : 5561
2012 : 3693

"High score list" of committer to aports

  9986	Natanael Copa
  1060	William Pitcock
   693	Leonardo Arena
   479	Carlo Landmeter
   334	Michael Mason

First commit to aports

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