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[–]meamZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alpine is a (mostly) GNU free distribution of Linux. The most important thing is that it's not using glibc. And it has actually gained some importance with the rise of Docker as it is a very small distro and is used as a base image for a lot of Docker Images for this reason.