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

v1.1 : 
...

Commit per year

2008 : 146
2009 : 3122
2010 : 3365
2011 : 5561
2012 : 1943 so far

First commit

The first commit was made