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Alpine Linux, the Glossary

Alpine Linux is a Linux distribution designed to be small, simple, and secure.^[1]

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AArch64

AArch64 or ARM64 is the 64-bit Execution state of the ARM architecture family.

ARM architecture family

ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of RISC instruction set architectures (ISAs) for computer processors.

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Backronym

A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.

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In programming and information security, a buffer overflow or buffer overrun is an anomaly whereby a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting adjacent memory locations.

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Buffer overflow protection

Buffer overflow protection is any of various techniques used during software development to enhance the security of executable programs by detecting buffer overflows on stack-allocated variables, and preventing them from causing program misbehavior or from becoming serious security vulnerabilities.

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BusyBox

BusyBox is a software suite that provides several Unix utilities in a single executable file.

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C (programming language)

C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.

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C standard library

The C standard library or libc is the standard library for the C programming language, as specified in the ISO C standard.

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Cache (computing)

In computing, a cache is a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster; the data stored in a cache might be the result of an earlier computation or a copy of data stored elsewhere.

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Data compression

In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.

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Debian

Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and optionally non-free firmware or software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. Alpine Linux and Debian are Independent Linux distributions, Linux distributions and x86-64 Linux distributions.

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Debian configuration system

is a software utility for performing system-wide configuration tasks on Unix-like operating systems.

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Docker (software)

Docker is a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.

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Embedded system

An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system.

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File system

In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access.

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Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux (pronounced) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Alpine Linux and Gentoo Linux are Independent Linux distributions and x86-64 Linux distributions.

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Glibc

The GNU C Library, commonly known as glibc, is the GNU Project implementation of the C standard library.

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GNU Core Utilities

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.

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Hardening (computing)

In computer security, hardening is usually the process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is larger when a system performs more functions; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one.

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LEAF Project

The LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Framework) Project is a collection of Linux distributions that began as a fork from the Linux Router Project (LRP) "linux-on-a-floppy" distribution. Alpine Linux and LEAF Project are light-weight Linux distributions and Linux distributions.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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Linux distribution

A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system. Alpine Linux and Linux distribution are Linux distributions.

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Linux for mobile devices

Linux for mobile devices, sometimes referred to as mobile Linux, is the usage of Linux-based operating systems on portable devices, whose primary or only Human interface device (HID) is a touchscreen.

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Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is a free and open source, UNIX-like kernel that is used in many computer systems worldwide.

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Linux on IBM Z

Linux on IBM Z or Linux on zSystems is the collective term for the Linux operating system compiled to run on IBM mainframes, especially IBM Z / IBM zSystems and IBM LinuxONE servers. Alpine Linux and Linux on IBM Z are Linux distributions.

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Lua (programming language)

Lua is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed mainly for embedded use in applications.

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Microsoft Store

The Microsoft Store (formerly known as the Windows Store) is a digital distribution platform operated by Microsoft.

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Monolithic kernel

A monolithic kernel is an operating system architecture with the entire operating system running in kernel space.

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Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers.

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Musl

musl is a C standard library intended for operating systems based on the Linux kernel, released under the MIT License.

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Network-attached storage

Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level (as opposed to block-level storage) computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

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OpenRC

OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like computer operating systems.

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Optical disc image

An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system.

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OS-level virtualization

OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances, called containers (LXC, Solaris containers, AIX WPARs, HP-UX SRP Containers, Docker, Podman), zones (Solaris containers), virtual private servers (OpenVZ), partitions, virtual environments (VEs), virtual kernels (DragonFly BSD), or jails (FreeBSD jail or chroot jail).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux

Also known as Alpine Package Keeper, Apk-tools.

, Web server, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Wireless router, X86, X86-64.

Alpine Linux, the Glossary

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Independent Linux distributions

Light-weight Linux distributions

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