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[Question] alternatives to systemd
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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Alpine is an interesting choice for hosting, really curious what situation you're hosting in that would require that level or lightness for a distro?
I bought a miniPC from AliExpress last year expecting 8GB RAM and Intel N100. The vendor sent an Intel N5095 with 4 GB RAM. I clawed most of my money back, but kept the machine for experimentation. Upped the RAM with the money I got back.
Alpine seems to work best for that machine. Though, I'm tempted to just put Debian on there so I can make docker and portainer agent work on it easily.
Update: Intel 5095, not Intel 50. My bad!
there's also devuan if you want, debian but with init freedom!