[question] Thoughts on building a Alpine Linux based Snapos

[m040601]

As far as I understood the main focus of badaix is developing the tool "snapcast" itself, not snapos, #10

This is nothing more than a small buildroot based Linux OS with pre installed snapclient or server.
I don't have the time to maintain this actively or release images for all of the different raspberry versions.
I recommend to build it by following the guide, or to use raspbian and install a snapclient or server deb package.

I'm a proficient Linux user, but not a programmer, distro or package maintainer. I'm also a user of Openwrt (also based on Buildroot).

But I have yet to find time to dabble with Buildroot and its ecosystem.
I understand its not the easiest one for beginners, but it shouldnt be rocket science either.

In the mean time I've seen a lot of things building upon Alpine Linux in the last times. PostmarketOS is one very interesting one.

The other day I was checking myMPDos, https://github.com/jcorporation/myMPDos and noticed that it also builds upon Alpine.

I then checked and saw that, https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=snapcast&branch=edge&repo=&arch=&maintainer=

Alpine linux itself provides stable well maintained snapcast packages for a plethora of architectures. They even provide both armv7h (raspberry 2) and even armhf (raspberry zero).

This is very interesting for the ones interesting and reusing (old) hardware, with the promise of long time support.

So I was just wondering if anyone has had any similar thoughts.
What are your ideas/comments about this ?

Is anyone here already using snapcast on a (minimal) Alpine setup ?
If so, how do you compare it to Snapos ?

Easier to maintain/update/customize ? Add extra multimedia tools ? How does it compare to something like Buildroot for less experienced users ?

Thanks in advance.

[kerta1n]

I've run Snapclient as a reciever on some old i386 PC booted off of a 1gb USB stick on Alpine. Much easier to just flash Alpine and edit some startup script to install the snapclient package and configure it RATHER than re-build SnapOS and mess with updating sources. Just imo though

[badaix]

I used to have Snapclient running on an OpenWrt based router, but it's a few years ago and I was once curious about buildroot.
I will most probably soon archive this repo, It is starting to rott very quickly if you don't keep up with changes in OpenWRT and Buildroot.