Alpine Linux Handbook

Note: This is a work in progress.

Table of Contents

1 About Alpine Linux

1.1 Why Another Distribution?

1.2 What's It Like?

1.3 Why Should I Try It?

1.4 What Do I Need to Know?

1.5 Why the Name Alpine?

2 Obtaining Alpine Linux

2.1 Choosing a Flavor

2.2 Download Alpine Linux

3 Installing Alpine Linux

4 Networking

4.1 Setting System Hostname

4.1.1 Hostname File

4.1.2 Hosts File

4.2 IPv4 Configuration

4.2.1 Static Addressing

4.2.2 Dynamic Addressing

4.3 IPv6 Configuration

4.3.1 Load ipv6 Kernel Module At Boot

4.3.2 Static Addressing

4.3.3 Stateless Autoconfiguration

5 Package Management

5.1 Repository Mirrors (Include this)

6 Init System

7 Local Backup (lbu)

8 Tutorials and Howtos

9 FAQs

10 Support

11 Contribute

12 Developer Documentation

13 Miscellaneous