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[–] 30 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What's the deal with Alpine not using GNU? Is it a technical or ideological thing? Or is it another "because we can" type distro?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know if people use it on desktop but with its minimal size it's convenient as hell for docker images that don't need a lot of dependencies installed

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I know it's very efficient and small (I believe it needs less than 80mib of ram with nothing else running) and that they leave out some of the basic commands like man to save space. Maybe they wrote more minimal versions of some coreutils?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    RAM usage depends on what you run inside the container not on the image size. If the container runs a single small program it will use a small amount of RAM regardless of the image it's based on.

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