Alpine Linux in Dom0

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no specifics

My impression from this and other threads is:

  1. the core team works on moving more and more hardware handling into dedicated qubes (increased security through compartmentalization): sys-net, sys-usb, sys-audio, sys-gui, …?

  2. the distribution used in system qubes is up to the user (to a certain degree, based on what is officially supported and what the skill level of the user is to go beyond that).

  3. eventually dom0 will have little left to do, at which point dom0 might migrate to a minimal build potentially maintained by the Qubes OS team in it’s entirety

  4. there is no specific time frame, but a clear process / direction

  5. given the above, repeated threads proposing various distributions for dom0 are distractions and bring little value: there won’t be any switch in the short-term and long-term the whole discussion becomes irrelevant.

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