New User Intro

I've been using Alpine a couple of months now. After an original install with lots of configuring & painstaking learning (which was fun, nonetheless), I lost the dang usb drive on a plane. Now, I have spun up another usb.

I am still trying to figure things out, some of which involves learning BusyBox, the packages of which have less options than core-utils. But so far I have a useable system. The repositories are a bit on the light side, and lots of packages I want to be there are not. Having come from Debian by comparison the repos here are light, but apk is such a lovely gem. Much easier than apt.

For new users like me, an observation I have made about the Alpine community, which makes it that different from many other popular distros, but similar perhaps to Arch, the action really seems to happen more on the wiki, and less in the forums. That could be a function of the forum software or hosting bandwidth, not sure.

I have lots of software requests, but at the top are xcompmgr, wordgrinder, cwm, and fun terminal stuff like lolcat, cmatrix, figlet, etc, but I can make those individually as feature requests, or maybe compile on my own. Aside from those, my only other requests are for a new user intro thread, and maybe a screenshot thread, both of which I find useful to get people talking about how they did stuff and gelling a community. If I get time I can log into the IRC nodes.

Finally, thanks, devs, for Alpine.
1) This is a crazy fast and light distro which creates a great usb solution. There is almost no need to install to metal.
2) Thanks for the great setup scripts. Also super useful.
3) More thanks still to all who have created the useful howtos on the wiki, the awall howtos were especially helpful. Guess I'll have to contribute.

I'm having a LOT of fun with Alpine!!