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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Notice how I put the "taking over" part in the personal issues. It has long taken over in the enterprise world, as I mentioned with RHEL and Ubuntu Server. Mainly because those are the biggest 2 options, and most other enterprise systems are based on them or try to be like them. The enterprise Linux scene is very homogeneous. Systemd is now taking over consumer Linux, where you historically saw less homogeneous systems.

Alpine Linux has already been used a lot for containers and embedded devices, but companies are starting to see the value in it. It's fast, it's lightweight, it has a small attack surface and it can be used for many things, not just containers. We have full VMs running on Alpine and hosting systems, and they're very appealing because they're reliable, and their images are smaller. Alpine also takes less time to install, and it's more reliable when starting from a generic image than any other systemd distro.