I'd like to hear a bit about the "new kid on the block," Alpine Linux.

This is in heavy use by Docker folk; the general idea of it was to establish a small distribution without a lot of "cruft" that's suitable as a container OS.

They made some interesting choices:
- Used to use uClibc as its libc, now uses musl, both being smaller and simpler than glibc
- uses OpenRC as its init system
- well, of course, they created their own package management system...
- has some supposed hardening of the kernel
- I find it interesting that a Linux kernel is around 3MB in size, but there are something like 130MB of kernel modules, which seems a bit ridiculous

Threat or offer ;-) is that I could prep a bit of material about Alpine, covering what I was interested in discovering; if someone has experience with it, that would be better than whatever I'd blather about ;-)