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Alpine Linux vs Centos: What are the differences?
Developers describe Alpine Linux as "Security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox". Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox. On the other hand, Centos is detailed as "The Community ENTerprise Operating System". The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code.
Alpine Linux and Centos can be primarily classified as "Operating Systems" tools.
According to the StackShare community, Centos has a broader approval, being mentioned in 352 company stacks & 304 developers stacks; compared to Alpine Linux, which is listed in 39 company stacks and 17 developer stacks.
Global familiarity, free, widely used, and as a debian distro feels more comfortable when rapidly switching between local macOS and remote command lines.
CentOS does boast quite a few security/stability improvements, however as a RHEL-based distro, differs quite significantly in the command line and suffers from slightly less frequent package updates. (Could be a good or bad thing depending on your use-case and if it is public facing)
Pros of Alpine Linux
- Secure9
- Good in containers9
- Fast7
Pros of CentOS
- Stable15
- Free to use8
- Reliable8
- Has epel packages5
- Good support5
- Great Community4
- I've moved from gentoo to centos2
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Cons of Alpine Linux
- Cannot install metasploit2
Cons of CentOS
- Yum is a horrible package manager1
