Newbie Alpine Ecosystem

The Alpine Newbie Ecosystem is documentation designed so that incoming users can use Alpine. All pages will be some kind of guide to form a manual book for Alpine Linux.

Alpine is the OS (Operating System), that runs on top of your machine. Programs such as a web browser run on the OS, and web pages like "wiki.alpine.org" run over that web browser.

The User Alpine Newbie Ecosystem:

Component	Description	Targeted
Alpine newbie overall and install	Basic meet with what Alpine Linux are, equivalent with others and differences, after the introduction, the brief of a basic installation are described with screens for new users.	New incoming users, non-linux and already other linux users
Alpine newbie apk packages	Alpine packages, the apk command line tool that index retrieve and install set of precompiled pieces of software for your installation.	Familiarized users, Already linux users
Alpine newbie desktops	Alpine as minimal distribution only need a desktop that have not so minimal but not so huge, XFCE are the official desktop, but thanks to community there's many options now, LXDE, MATE are now available for.	Familiarized users, Already other linux users
Alpine newbie developer	Alpine stack for develop, Alpine Linux are the most use Linux to deploy software, so it's the right choice to become a developer.	Medium alpine users, Already linux users
Alpine newbie lammers	As a security focused Linux alpine are enough to become a "hacker?" You must persist and gain knowledge, have respect and will gain respect from community.	Medium alpine users, Experts linux users

Tutorial series

Optional page to read	What's next to read
FAQ	Alpine newbie

Installation: Alpine newbie overall and install

• Alpine and BIOS/UEFI Support Status and related topics
• Alpine newbie install manual
  • Alpine Install: from a disc to a new computer single only boot
  • Alpine Install: from a disc to a old computer single only boot
  • Alpine Install: from a disc to a virtualbox machine single only
  • Alpine Install: from a iso to a virtualbox machine with external disc
• Alpine general information after install (must read if know have xperience)

Postinstall: Alpine newbie desktops

• Overall info and minimal packages common to any working desktop
  • Alpine newbie desktops, (overall information only)
  • Alpine Newbies XFCE Desktop Environment
  • Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment
  • Alpine Newbies Xorg and Openbox Window Manager
  • Alpine Newbies MATE Desktop Environment

Deploy and production: Alpine newbie developer

Developers: compilers, IDE's and tools

• Alpine newbie developer
  • Alpine newbie developer: full stack web

Servers: deploy in production

• Alpine production deploy
  • Production Web server: Lighttpd‎‎
  • Production DataBases : mysql
  • Production LAMP system: Lighttpd + PHP + MySQL‎‎
• Alpine production monitoring
  • Cacti: traffic analysis and monitoring network

New users community and social networks

Here are only social networks for newbie users:

• Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/alpinelinux
• IRC chat: irc://irc.freenode.net/alpine-linux
• Telegram RSS: https://t.me/s/alpine_linux
• Forum Mails : https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/users

See Also

1. FAQ
2. Alpine newbie
3. Alpine newbie install manual
4. Alpine newbie apk packages
5. Alpine newbie desktops
6. Alpine newbie developer
7. Alpine newbie lammers