[COFF] Alpine, was: Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft

Michael Kjörling michael at kjorling.se
Tue Jul 12 17:58:48 AEST 2022


On 12 Jul 2022 09:01 +1000, from dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
>> Alpine is very popular. It's using OpenRC and eyeing S6, I've heard.
> 
> Alpine?  Where do Penguin/OS users get off using the name of a well-known 
> MUA (the one I'm using now)?

If Wikipedia is to be believed, the MUA came later.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux> "Initial release August 2005"

as compared to

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client)> "Initial release December 20, 2007"

to say nothing of all the other uses <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine>

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