We successfully conducted some experiments in which we mixed the kernel from one distribution with the userland of another one. We found that the procedure works well, except for a few issues. In this article, I will summarize the solutions.

How to have a working Alpine Linux installed on bare metal.

Alpine Linux was on my list of lightweight distributions to check. From what I was reading around I thought it was only suitable for containers, but the test I ran in this article proved me wrong.