Technology answer

Alpine Linux

companies run it of 54,527,857 in the index, too few to publish a share. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 2 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

No published series

1 companies is under the publication floor of 1,000, and the fixed panel anchored at 31 Dec 2020 carries 1 of them. A monthly line drawn off that many observations would be noise at the same weight as a line off millions, so this page states the count and its date and publishes no series.

First discovered 17 Apr 2025, last discovered 2 May 2025.

Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 2 May 2025

Lightweight Linux distribution commonly used for servers and containers.

Alpine Linux is a community-maintained, security-focused minimal distribution. It is widely adopted as a base image for containers and for small server deployments.

Kindproduct

VendorAlpine Linux, alpinelinux.org

PathWeb Engineering > Programming Languages and Runtimes > Server operating systems

Slugalpine-linux

Deploymentself-hosted

Pricingfree

Open sourceyes

First discovered2025-04-17

Last discovered2025-05-02

Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10

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