Yes, I know so much of Alpine’s lightweightness comes from not using glibc.

But still, the other options I see are far from being slimmed down. Debian, Ubuntu server, CentOS… They all could use some cuts.

What’s the most slimmed down non-desktop distro that still has a glibc base? I honestly don’t care if it has its own package manager (build tool handles this for me). Just wanna use it in containers for running server apps.

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    1 year ago

    My experience with gentoo docker images is that they’re pretty big. I’m not sure why. Maybe the build system or the python deps make it big. I tried squashing the image layers and it was still big, so it isn’t that.