How to Install and Configure Alpine Linux (2027 Edition)

At some point, [music] the world of computing stopped asking, "What do you need?" and started assuming you're going to want everything. Gibbc is impressive, [music] but it's also an agreement to carry decades of assumptions forward. At the same time, RAM usage keeps climbing, driven by proprietary electronbased garbage. Musel is a refusal of that

agreement. It does less on purpose. Enter Alpine Linux. What's up, guys? My name is Tony [music] and today I'm going to give you a quick and painless guide on installing Alpine Linux. Alpine is a securityoriented lightweight Linux distribution that's notoriously used in containers, but it actually can be a viable desktop distribution for those

who have a minimal workflow and want to withdraw consent from legacy proprietary software. Some of the unique features of Alpine is that it is 5 mgabytes as a base system. It uses muscle lib or musol libcy instead of gibbc which we'll get into in detail later. It uses busy box instead of the gnu core utils. It's got

open rc instead of systemd for the init system. And the apk package manager is really blazingly [music] fast. So with that being said, let's jump right into the installation. So we'll go ahead and go to alpine linux.org and we're going to click that downloads link. And for me, I'm going to scroll down [music] to standard here and

download the x86_64 ISO. And I'll go ahead and save that file here. All right. So, we'll go ahead and load up this ISO here. And we see it's prompting us for localhost login. All we need to do is type in root here. And we're in. And there we go. We'll go ahead and clear the terminal here with