Has anyone gotten the aarch64 Raspberry Pi image of Alpine to work on the Pi 4? It seems like a good fit for a RAM constrained system but I could never get it past the colorful boot screen.
It's fairly easy to trim down what runs on Raspbian. so if your only concern is background tasks eating RAM, you don't need something like Alpine to fix that issue. We use Pis at my work for running slideshows, and while performing their duty they use about 123MB of RAM for all running software (mostly our software + monitoring tools).
Raspbian doesn't offer aarch64 userspace though.
https://dietpi.com/ might be of interest to you. I use it on my old pi, it just works. :)
Yes. All 9 of my rpi4 systems run the aarch64 image. I some issues with 3.11.0 but 3.11.3 should work pretty well now.
Thanks for the confirmation, I think I had tried right when 3.11 came out so that lines up - I'll try the newer builds.