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  • The biggest upside is that Alpine is small. The base installation is about 5 MB! Thanks to that, our development/installation tool pmbootstrap is able to abstract everything in chroots and therefore keep the development environment consistent, no matter which Linux distribution your host runs on. And if you messed up (or we have a bug), you can simply run pmbootstrap zap and the chroot will be set up again in seconds.

    Another benefit of the tininess of Alpine - many older devices don’t have much storage space to spare, so small system images can be anything ranging from useful to required.

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  • Corporations aren’t taking over any more

    I beg to differ! Both people and governments are more reliant than ever on a handful of tech companies. Most of them aren’t your classic cyberpunk megacorp (though we do have some like Samsung which fit the bill) but the likes of Google, Apple, and Amazon have an incredible amount of influence and power over their users, as well as the capital to buy out any industry they want to take over.