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title: Alpine Linux
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    <h2>Small Simple Secure</h2>
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    Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution
    based on musl libc and busybox.
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This site is under [development](http://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/ncopa/mksite-alpine)

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<h3><span class="icon-rss-square"></span> Alpine News</h3>
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 <tr><td>2014-05-21</td><td><a href="posts/release-2.7.8.html">Alpine 2.7.8 released</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td>2014-05-06</td><td><a>Alpine 2.7.7 released</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td>2014-04-21</td><td><a>Alpine 2.7.6 released</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td>2014-04-09</td><td><a>Alpine Linux has switched to musl libc</a></td></tr>
 <tr><td>2014-03-21</td><td><a>Alpine 2.7.5 released</a></td></tr>
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<h3><span class="icon-archive"></span> Latest Development</h3>
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