Great!<p>Especially happy to see Tesseract OCR v4.0 [0] now being in the mainline repository. Tesseract was the main motivation for changing my web stack to docker a couple of weeks ago, and I had to use a separate builder image [1] in Alpine 3.8. Now it is just:<p>> apk add tesseract-ocr<p>[0] <a href="https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.9/community/armhf/tesseract-ocr" rel="nofollow">https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.9/community/armhf/te...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://hub.docker.com/r/inetsoftware/alpine-tesseract/" rel="nofollow">https://hub.docker.com/r/inetsoftware/alpine-tesseract/</a>
I'm curious to know why they switched back to openssl from libressl. Are there compatibility issues or have the issues that caused libressl to be created been addressed now in openssl?
From the web site: “ container requires no more than 8 MB and a minimal installation to disk requires around 130 MB of storage. Not only do you get a fully-fledged Linux environment but a large selection of packages from the repository.”<p>I remember in 1997 when I could boot Linux off a 1.44MB floppy and get a fully a fully functioning Linux environment even with network support in a blitz. If 130MB is considered “lean”, what happened to our Unix principles of minimalism and clean design?
Just out of curiosity:<p>> Firefox is only available on x86_64 due to Rust.<p>Could someone explain the reasoning behind this? I’m not familiar with whatever restrictions Rust may impose.
How suitable is Alpine as a desktop distribution? It seems like a low-GNU distribution with an emphaisis on static linkage. Is that a correct assessment? I'm very happy with Arch, I stopped my distro-hopping six years ago when I landed on it, but I worry that I'm getting complacent because Arch is just so easy to use.
> Switch from LibreSSL to OpenSSL<p>Glad that this happened. OpenSSL looks a lot better than when the entire drama started and it was quite hard to even build OpenSSL from source on alpine.
Much awaited release. I've been running my entire application line up on Alpine it's been awesome! I wish more Cloud / Hosting providers have default Alpine Images. I've been using alpine's APK packaging system to manage software builds and release cycles.<p>So for those who are curious my CI builds the software into packages automatically versioning them and marking the build versions, storing the packages in my GCS bucket and then automatically runs apk add --upgrade on my package. All orchestrated with Terraform and LXD, no docker / Kubernetes involved whatsoever. Now there is also apk-autoupdate which I look forward to exploring and seeing how it can simplify my build process.
Probably my favorite distro for dockerizing apps that need more OS. 130mb isn't exactly tiny, but it's a lot smaller than other more common options.<p>I'll sometimes do builds in a larger distro (debian or ubuntu server), then deploy into alpine.
Just wondering how many are using Alpine in Production? I have heard problems of LibreSSL ( no longer matters ) and muslc. But no one has came out and state they are using it happily in production on X number of Servers.