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

3 Installing Alpine Linux

4 First Boot

5 Managing Alpine Linux

5.1 Package Management

5.2 Init System

5.3 Local Backup (lbu)

6 Tutorials and Howtos