Alpine Linux 3.12 Released With D Language Support, MIPS64 Port

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Alpine Linux 3.12 Released With D Language Support, MIPS64 Port

Version 3.12 of the Alpine Linux lightweight distribution built around musl libc and Busybox is now available for this platform popular with containers and other embedded use-cases...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Alpine-Linux-3.12-Released

[jacob]

That's interesting. Alpine is clearly targeted at embedded applications (much more than containers IMO), but unless I'm wrong, Dlang is virtually never used in that area (nor is it particularly suitable for it).

[RushPL]

That's interesting. Alpine is clearly targeted at embedded applications (much more than containers IMO), but unless I'm wrong, Dlang is virtually never used in that area (nor is it particularly suitable for it).

Not true. Alpine is used in the context of docker, in order to build minimal containerized applications. Any cloud D application will benefit from ability to run on Alpine.

[Larry$ilverstein]

Not true.

Pretty sure he's a troll. All his posts are just as dumb as this one.

[Raka555]

That's interesting. Alpine is clearly targeted at embedded applications (much more than containers IMO), but unless I'm wrong, Dlang is virtually never used in that area (nor is it particularly suitable for it).

The moment people see "busybox", they can't stop thinking embedded.

It is suited to be used anywhere you want a bloat free OS. As a result Desktop scenarios are not well supported.
I use it on many servers in a virtualized environment.

I just wish that cloud providers like DigitalOcean, etc would start offering it as a standard config.

[skeevy420]

The moment people see "busybox", they can't stop thinking embedded.

It is suited to be used anywhere you want a bloat free OS. As a result Desktop scenarios are not well supported.
I use it on many servers in a virtualized environment.

I just wish that cloud providers like DigitalOcean, etc would start offering it as a standard config.

I think "Crap, are the GNU tools available".

[Raka555]

I think "Crap, are the GNU tools available".

apk add util-linux procps

I can't live with only busybox, either.

[fazalmajid]

I run Alpine on bare metal as my primary home server. The reasons why are sanity and security (e.g. the absence of systemd). Next best thing to OpenBSD in the Linux world, although it is true muse-libc does lead to some software portability glitches.

[Larry$ilverstein]

I run Alpine on bare metal as my primary home server. The reasons why are sanity and security (e.g. the absence of systemd). Next best thing to OpenBSD in the Linux world, although it is true muse-libc does lead to some software portability glitches.

musl libc is awesome for static linking and embedded, but using it on bigger machines is just throwing away performance for no good reason. The arch-specific implementations of memchr(), memcpy(), etc. in glibc are so much faster than musl it's not even funny.

[Raka555]

musl libc is awesome for static linking and embedded, but using it on bigger machines is just throwing away performance for no good reason. The arch-specific implementations of memchr(), memcpy(), etc. in glibc are so much faster than musl it's not even funny.

Care to share some links to benchmarks with us to this effect ?

Or maybe it is something Michael would like to test ...