topic Photon vs Alpine in Photon OS Discussions

Photon vs Alpine

kasper — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:29:21 GMT

Can someone point me to a web link that compares Photon to Alpine? Alpine seems to have a smaller footprint (less is more) and other nice features. Photon is better integrated with VMWare? However if I want indepence with containers Alpine may be a better choice. I digress. Just want a white paper Photon vs Alpine.

Re: Photon vs Alpine

DCasota — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:58:11 GMT

Hi,

I belief VMware Photon OS is better ~ global defence networking. Epic teams - it's all about that. If you know you know.

That said, the paradigm of software provides hardware-triggering functionality by using these hasn't changed yet. There is no new category of an open source patent philosophy eg. for robotics or MR/AR/VR related cheat sheets.

In the old but gold flavor of cheat sheets, I would begin with saying Photon OS is superior in:
- using the VMware's Linux Cryptographic Module for Non-Proprietary Security Policies (FIPS 140-2)
- ci/cd pipelines to improve networking use cases eg. for virtual radio network applications
- Robust uefi and secure boot on vSphere, rpm ostree + package manager tdnf image/package system
- longer LTS periods
- documentation because you find Photon OS learning stuff almost in every VMware software appliance product

What I like on Alpine from the prospectives
- Same focus on developers and productive environments. In addition, Alpine maintains docs especially for newbie developers
- more choices of platforms x86_64, arm32 and arm64, Raspberry Pi, PPC64
- more non-proprietary, classic server use cases articles

Alpine also maintains desktop environments. Not sure if this is in better sequence though. I mean an installer with support of all 80+ file systems flavors would be somewhat a nice feature.

Hope this helps.

Re: Photon vs Alpine

kasper — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 20:20:30 GMT

Thank you. Both offer some interesting methods of security. Alpine has position-independt execuctables and stack smashing protection. You already have mentioned what Photon has. If I was agnostic I would have a difficult time chosing. But I favor VMWare. And Photon support and development is great.