Alpine Linux:Trivia

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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

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
2.4 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

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

First commit

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