AlpineBSD: NetBSD and Alpine Without AI-Generated Code

AlpineBSD is an operating system based on the NetBSD kernel, with userspace design inspired by Alpine Linux. The project explicitly excludes AI-generated code from its base system and main package repository, implementing a formal policy against including LLM-generated software.

The distribution is early-stage, lacking an installer but providing a basic installation guide for early adopters. It includes Alpine’s apk package manager and busybox, but takes a more GNU-oriented approach, defaulting to GNU make over BSD alternatives. The package collection is original to the project rather than forked from Alpine.

AlpineBSD’s hardware support is constrained by NetBSD’s support matrix, which is significantly narrower than Linux’s, particularly for laptop hardware. The distribution currently runs the s6 init system and plans to support OpenRC as an alternative.