Alpine Linux Handbook

This material is work-in-progress ... Do not follow instructions here until this notice is removed. (Last edited by Mattx86 on 5 Aug 2010.)

Table of Contents

1 About Alpine Linux

1.1 Why Should I Try It?

1.2 What's It Like?

1.3 What Should I Know?

1.4 How did Alpine Linux Begin?

1.5 Why the Name Alpine?

2 Obtaining Alpine Linux

2.1 Alpine Linux Flavors

2.2 Download Alpine Linux

2.3 Older Releases

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